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...daring political experts were even ready to consider Hart's chances for the nomination hopeless. "The impulse that gave rise to Gary Hart is as strong and powerful as ever," contends Pollster Daniel Yankelovich. "But the man didn't live up to the urge. He represented a wish, a gesture of hope, but the sober appraisal of the voters is that he is not ready. There is no reason to believe this race will turn yet again." Declares veteran Democratic Strategist Ted Van Dyk, head of a Washington-based think tank: "Hart shattered his image. Suddenly...
Those assessments may be too sweeping in a year in which voter sentiment has seemed so volatile. Still, it was the Hart team that faced by far the greater need for a halftime readjustment of its game plan. Pennsylvania culminated a string of Hart defeats in the populous industrial Northern states from Illinois to New York that Democrats will need to upset Ronald Reagan in November...
With his triumph in Pennsylvania, Mondale demonstrated again, as he had the previous week in New York, that he can put together the traditional coalition of core Democrats-the elderly, union workers, the poor and local party leaders. Beyond that, he cut into the presumed Hart strengths among younger, better-educated and career-oriented voters. Mondale won handily, taking 47% of the vote to Hart's 35% and Jesse Jackson...
...second-half comeback by Hart is far from inconceivable. But it will be difficult. Mondale is past the halfway point on his drive toward the 1,967 delegates needed to win the nomination at San Francisco in July. To catch up to Mondale from his present 571 delegates by the end of the primary season, Hart will have to win roughly two out of every three delegates to be chosen in the remaining primaries and caucuses. Realistically, his better hope is simply to keep Mondale from reaching the magic number, which would happen if the former Vice President fails...
...headed into our territory, folks," Hart assured his supporters last week, referring to the fact that twelve states west of the Mississippi River will soon hold caucuses or primaries. Generally, that is indeed friendlier ground for Hart. Yet out of the 1,670 delegates still to be chosen, 967 of them are from states west of the Mississippi, and of those, just 563 are truly in the geographical West. As voters were marking ballots in Pennsylvania, Hart pulled back from predicting that he would win a majority of delegates before the convention. "The contest gets down to one thing...