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...also giving Democratic leaders fits by challenging the party's rules. Charging that the delegate-selection process discriminated against outsiders like himself, Jackson demanded major reforms before the primaries begin. In so doing, he became a lightning rod for other disaffected long shots. Hart, Rollings and George McGovern all jumped to second Jackson's complaints. Hart was so enthralled by the limelight shining on Jackson that he decided to share it, and word spread that he would begin making joint appearances with the charismatic preacher. "The rules make the party undemocratic," charged McGovern. "They help a front runner...
...really as anybody else. They need it dirty to get turned on? So what? They're still human beings, you know, and there are millions of them out there. All the men's magazines taken together have thirty million readers. That's more people than voted for George McGovern...
...serve if things happen to go his way. He has almost no national support or campaign staff and he returns phone calls quickly. He is concentrating his campaign in New Hampshire and Iowa, traveling quietly, speaking at high schools and civic associations hoping to build momentum. And like George McGovern and Jesse Jackson, he notes that running for president is a way to say things people ought to hear. "That's a minimum of what you accomplish. There's no time you can discuss things like during a presidential campaign," he says...
Cranston is the third Democratic contender to appear before a Law School audience. Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (D-S.D.) and successful 1972 Democratic candidate George S. McGovern appeared this fall...
...cited organizations supporting Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio), Sen, Gary Hart (D-Colo.), Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), and former South Dakota Sen. George McGovern...