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...MARIO WATCH...
...Wednesday, Feb. 19, the day after the New Hampshire primary, and Bob Kerrey has come in third, behind Paul Tsongas and Bill Clinton -- or fourth behind Tom Harkin, or even fifth behind the Mario Cuomo write-in campaign. A small group of Kerrey backers, the money raisers, visit their candidate. In their minds is an old Eugene McCarthy line: "The motto of the Benedictine order is 'Keep death daily before your eyes,' which is a very good motto for politicians." We're sorry, Bob, say Kerrey's men, but you're dead. The bank is closed. We're broke...
...seen as "charming." Their attention, now, has turned to timing and orchestration. One view holds that Cuomo should wait for someone else to challenge the existing field. "Let another big shot take the hit for stepping on the guys who've trekked for six months," says a Cuomo adviser. "Mario could beat any of those mentioned if he goes in. Let it run through Super Tuesday on March 10. There's plenty of time." But you never know, says another aide to the Governor. "Better to move quickly to stave off the others and keep it clean. And better...
...Mario could still run in the primaries...
...York Governor Mario Cuomo, continuing his Hamlet act well past what had been thought to be the last scene, had done nothing to discourage either a New Hampshire write-in campaign or efforts to start a national draft movement. Then there is serious talk about Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, the 1988 vice- presidential nominee -- who has passed word that he would accept a draft -- and Tennessee Senator Al Gore, like Gephardt a 1988 also-ran, plus more wistful speculation about Senators Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Senate Democratic leader George Mitchell -- almost everybody...