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...thought it was really important to the party and the country, I'd have to consider it." His withdrawal creates new opportunities for both Hart and Mondale in Glenn's home state of Ohio, which will choose 105 delegates in a primary on May 8. George McGovern, the Democrats' 1972 nominee, kept his promise to fold his campaign if he did not finish at least second in Massachusetts...
...chain has spent more than $8 million broadcasting its "Where's the beef?" TV ads (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). By comparison, Mondale and Hart between them have spent $2.2 million on TV advertising. Has an adman's whimsy been carried too far? Said Campaign Dropout George McGovern: "I think there's enough beef in both of them, if they don't turn each other into hamburger...
...year-olds who are voting for Hart in the 1984 primaries are in many cases the 18-year-olds who rang doorbells for Eugene McCarthy in 1968 and the 22-year-olds who cast their ballots for George McGovern in 1972. They are still skeptical of Establishment candidates and political bosses. But they have shed idealism for pragmatism, and liberalism for moderation. Many Yumpies seem more interested in making money for themselves than in redistributing it to the poor. "They tend to be entrepreneurial," says Tom Kiley, a political consultant in Boston. Notes Pollster Daniel Yankelovich: "They see that...
...become the people they want to be. Rarely must they justify or explain. Presidential candidates are not so fortunate. Their lives are retraced in unforgiving detail by opponents and reporters. For Gary Hart, the scrutiny is becoming particularly intense. Says Frank Mankiewicz, who with Hart managed the 1972 George McGovern campaign: "There are more investigative reporters looking into Gary Hart's background than Watergate...
...says, "though they seem to be issues with reporters." Has he tried to remake himself after a rigid and unhappy childhood? "What a lot of baloney!" he exclaimed in an interview with TIME last week. "Everybody's going to be psychoanalyzed. Jimmy Carter was, Richard Nixon was, George McGovern was. It's just part of the deal. But my childhood was as happy as one can be in not plush economic circumstances." He changed his signature, he explained, "to make it easier to read." (To make his Senate letterhead signature legible, Hart dropped his middle name and switched...