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In the South, Mondale was counting on a huge black vote to make Dixie Democratic once again. Inspired in large part by Jesse Jackson's oratory ("Hands that picked cotton can now pick Presidents"), new black voters did register Democratic in record numbers. But the Republicans had added as...
Only blacks voted overwhelmingly for Mondale, choosing him by 91% to 9%. To some black political strategists, that is ominous news. They fear the Democratic Party will move sharply to the right in order to recover all the other voting groups that have forsaken it. Says Ronald Walters, a Howard...
Yet Robert Strauss, the party's former national chairman, fears that not even this week's trouncing will make willful interest-group leaders more accommodating and pragmatic. "The defeat will mean nothing to them," he says. "The hunger of these groups will be even greater. Women, blacks, teachers...
If the generation gap surfaced first in the Democratic primary in New Hampshire, the next surge, surfacing in New York in April, was of an entirely different nature. It attached itself to the name of Jesse Jackson.
It was always difficult to distinguish between Jesse Jackson and what he stood for. The eloquent young man was a master politician-part preacher, part insurrectionary, part visionary, part hater. Tainted now, however, by racists whom he refused to repudiate, he ran not as a presidential candidate who happened to...