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With a running mate and a platform, the third man revs...
...Congressman from Illinois knows all too well the fix he is in. "We are getting into a critical phase of the campaign," he says. He tried his best to perk up his showing by performing the tasks that party candidates accomplish at conventions: choosing a running mate and issuing a platform. His vice presidential selection, Democrat Patrick J. Lucey, former Governor of Wisconsin (see box), is hardly likely to give Anderson a major boost. Lucey is a skilled campaign planner and organizer, and has close ties to labor leaders, who have been very suspicious of Ander son. Still, Lucey...
...into a schoolyard fight because he was rooting for Al Smith over Herbert Hoover for the presidency. Ever since, Patrick Lucey, 62, has been a stalwart of the Democratic Party, a key reason why Independent John Anderson chose him last week as his vice-presidential running mate...
That walkout, says Mitch Rogovin, the lawyer leading the fight to get Anderson on the ballots, made Lucey the logical choice to be the Congressman's running mate. "Anderson had taken a leave of absence from the Republican Party," says Rogovin, "and here Lucey was taking what looked like a leave of absence from the Democratic Party. He was the other side of the coin...
Reagan's selection of Bush as his running mate may be a "clear signal that he wants to broaden the G.O.P. base." Unfortunately, Mr. Reagan's idea of broadening the base is to allow moderates and liberals to share his point of view...