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Strongly critical of both the Democratic and Republican parties, Johnson said she was running for the same reasons as the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, but opposes the idea of a woman settling for the vice-presidency, an idea Jackson supports.
The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, who seems to have struck a chord with New Hampshire voters with his stirring rhetoric, spoke to students at St. Anselm's College, where all eight Democratic candidates will debate tonight.
After long months of polishing and revving up, the Mondale locomotive is poised for its first tests, in the Iowa caucuses next week and the New Hampshire primary on Feb. 28. Mondale, 56, will be running against seven other Democrats and the high expectations generated by his picture-perfect campaign...
Few of the others are doing any better. Cranston jokes that "I had a full head of hair until Reagan became President," but even his TV ads bring out a flaw that is not the California Senator's fault: in an age of imagery, his bony build and glistening...
Asked whether Mondale would make an "acceptable" President, 80% of Democrats said yes. Of the other candidates, only Jesse Jackson showed an impressive increase in acceptability, probably attributable to freeing Naval Aviator Robert Goodman from Syria. But half of the Democrats still find Jackson unacceptable.