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Former Vice-President Walter Mondale and defeated 1972 Democratic nominee George McGovern are also scheduled to speak to the 1500 to 2000 expected delegates today at the Augusta Civic Center. The candidates' scheduled 15-minute spiels are set to begin promptly at 10:21 a.m., followed by the non-binding afternoon straw vote...
...time fund raisers, no party encouragement, no state organizations, and a wife who says she will not stump for him. He lost the 1972 general election by the largest plurality in history. In 1980, South Dakota voters ousted him from the Senate after 18 years of service. But George McGovern, 61, the outspoken prairie populist and critic of the Viet Nam War, is running for President-again. Said he after announcing his candidacy at a press conference last week: "I think I've got a real shot at the nomination...
Political pundits and fellow Democrats hardly concurred. "I might as well run my bloodhound, Blue," declared Atlanta Pollster Claibourne Darden. "The possibility of his being elected President is zero." Only slightly more enthusiastic was Colorado Senator Gary Hart, McGovern's 1972 campaign manager and one of his six declared presidential opponents. "He has as much right as anyone else to get into the race," said Hart...
...McGovern's "New Realism" platform retained the liberal and antiwar tone of his 1972 campaign. Its major planks: a call to arms control, an end to U.S. military involvement in Central America and improved relations with Cuba. Commented Los Angeles Attorney and Democratic Strategist Mickey Kantor: "He is a decent bright man, but he is tilting at windmills that no longer exist...
Much of that money, in turn, went to publicizing anti-abortion political candidates and slandering pro-choice ones. Four particularly intense campaigns were against the re-election bids of liberal Senators George McGovern, Frank Church, Birch Bayh and John Culver. In the McGovern campaign, the New Right ran a "stalking borse" candidate whose objective was not to win, but simply to throw mud at the incumbent. Similarly, Church was the target of a conservative media blitz. As part of its anti-Church campaign, the National Catholic Political Action Committee ran an ad claiming the Senator had voted to increase...