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With perverse consistency, voters seem to slap Mondale down every time he appears to have the nomination within his grasp. Having derailed Mondale's "juggernaut" in New Hampshire, they briefly admired him as an aggressive underdog struggling back. But after Mondale regained the role of front runner, he began behaving like one again, calling for party unity and looking ahead to the contest against Ronald Reagan. To the voters, he was no longer "Fighting Fritz." Once again he was what one party insider calls "Mondale Inc.," the buttoned-up Establishment candidate who sells shares of himself to interest groups...
...leaders. Mondale even reached into the Chicago suburbs to win a large share of Hart's Yumpie (young upwardly mobile professional) vote. It went pretty much according to the pundits' script-at least as it was written before New Hampshire, when the Mondale campaign was still a "juggernaut" and Hart a "dark horse...
Gary Hart rose out of the dusty streets of Ottawa, Kans., survived the austerities of Yale's Divinity and Law schools, became a U.S. Senator, and is now a political legend-in-the-making, stalking the Mondale "juggernaut." When Hart mounts the campaign pulpit, he thunders often about a discouraged and crumbling America...
...nominate someone like Hart, who hasn't shown he has the capacity to translate intriguing ideas into tangible policy. We ask the same of McGovern, whom we respect for his idealism but don't believe has shown the requisite understanding for translating that idealism into policy. The Hart juggernaut is far from unstoppable; that's what they said about Mondale only two weeks ago. The race is far from over. Democrats in Massachusetts should vote for Mondale on Tuesday. In doing so, they would only be following their best instincts and traditions...
Hart told the packed room his campaign "may have brought a political juggernaut to its knees...