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Mondale has some advantages that previous front runners did not enjoy. In 1984 there will be no opportunity for a little-known candidate to build momentum gradually, as George McGovern did in 1972 and Jimmy Carter did in 1976. The early bunching of primaries and caucuses puts a higher than usual premium on precisely the factors that are Mondale's strengths: money, organization, a well-known name and a sharply defined appeal to party loyalists. Those strengths are so formidable, in fact, that it will be difficult for Glenn to score a knockout, even if he wins the early...
...money and has a weak organization; worse, he strikes some voters as arrogant. Former Florida Governor Reubin Askew, 55, might win the March 13 primary in his delegate-rich home state; he complains bitterly that he cannot get the press to pay attention to him anywhere else. George McGovern, 61, seems to be running more to win some attention for his blunt views ("Let's get out of Central America. Bring the Marines out of that religious war in Lebanon") than in any hope that Democrats will forget the disaster he led the party...
...American voters conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc. * When Democrats and independents were asked whom they preferred for the nomination, 28% picked Mondale and 26% chose Glenn, essentially the same support that each enjoyed when the summer began. The rest of the pack includes former Senator George McGovern, the 1972 nominee, with 8%; Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson, still mulling over whether to announce his candidacy, with 5%; California Senator Alan Cranston with 4%; Colorado Senator Gary Hart with 2%; former Florida Governor Reubin Askew with 2%; and South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings with 1%. With almost...
...this early stage, the polls tend to reflect heavily the name recognition that each candidate enjoys. Glenn, Mondale, McGovern and Jackson are far better known than the other contenders. In the case of Hart, part of the reason he trails badly in the preference rankings is that 60% of the voters say they are not yet familiar enough with him to form an opinion...
...plans to field or support a female candidate for the Presidency: they realize that a woman would only be as politically feasible in 1984 as the Rev. Jesse Jackson will probably be: negligibly. In the same way, they cannot realistically expect Mondale, or Glenn, or Cranston, or Hollings, or McGovern, or even the very enthusiastic Gary Hart to enter the New Hampshire primary on the same ticket with a woman...