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Mondale holds commanding leads in Iowa and New Hampshire as Democrats in those states prepare to make their choices. A mid-January poll by the Des Moines Register gives him a 49%-to-20% margin over Glenn. Alan Cranston and George McGovern tied for third place at 6%. A Boston Globe survey late last month shows Mondale ahead of Glenn, 42% to 19%, in New Hampshire. Jackson is next with 10%, ahead of Gary Hart...
...winning candidate. But his natural reserve makes him seem cold, even condescending. Ernest Rollings looks like a President, yet his quick tongue outpaces even his nimble wit; he rambles, improvises and seems to startle himself, as well as his audiences, by what he has just said. George McGovern's sincerity, clarity and professorial calm have piqued the interest of a new generation of college students who were children when the former presidential candidate led his party against the Viet Nam War in 1972. To the mainstream of voters, however, he appears quaint, quixotic and too liberal. Reubin Askew remains...
...long, overworking the candidates and turning off voters. Earlier reforms opening the party to more women, blacks and party neophytes had gone too far, reducing the rewards of longtime party loyalty and the influence of seasoned officials. Democratic stalwarts had been denied the nomination by comparative upstarts like McGovern and Jimmy Carter. Representatives of Mondale, Senator Edward Kennedy and organized labor dominated the commission. Their operatives devised a primary process stacked against underfinanced or late-starting loners...
...issues, Mondale and his rivals are in surprising accord, though their emphasis and rhetoric tend to highlight their differences. All of the candidates favor some land of freeze on nuclear arms. Cranston, McGovern and Hollings urge that the U.S. try such a freeze unilaterally to see if the Soviets go along. Askew would freeze the number of warheads and missiles and the total destructive power but permit modernization of weapons under these limits. All would hold real military spending increases to 3% or 6% a year, except McGovern, who would slash such spending by 25%, and Jackson, who would...
...foreign affairs, all except Glenn stress the need for U.S.-Soviet summit meetings to reduce tensions. All would cut off U.S. aid to the rebels fighting the Marxist-led government in Nicaragua, and all would halt military aid to the Salvadoran regime unless death-squad activity stops. McGovern would withdraw U.S. military aid and troops from Central America, including Honduras. None of the Democrats would loosen U.S. ties to Israel, although McGovern and Jackson urge a more even hand in the Middle East. Yet even Jackson praises Israel as "the most brilliant flower in God's garden...