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Gary Warren Hart, 50, the shy, jug-eared boy from Ottawa, Kansas, who graduated from Bethany Nazarene College in central Oklahoma and then from Yale's Divinity and Law Schools, the volunteer for both John and Robert Kennedy who engineered George McGovern's capture of the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination, portrayed himself in 1984 as the man who would move his party and the country into a new age. It almost worked. Now the self- described antipolitician is in the unaccustomed position of being the front runner for the Democratic nomination, and, for the moment, he is biding his time...
...Number of Democratic candidates on the 1984 New Hampshire primary ballot: Eight--Gary Hart, Walter Mondale, John Glenn, Ernest Hollings, Alan Cranston, Reuben Askew, and George McGovern...
...surmises, would have been equally successful in the age of radio, like Franklin D. Roosevelt, or in the age of newsreels, like Warren G. Harding, or in the age of steel engravings and the penny press, like Franklin Pierce. Presidential candidates in the television era -- Johnson, Nixon, Humphrey, McGovern, Ford, Carter, Mondale -- hardly constitute a parade of bathing beauties calculated to excite Atlantic City...
...Democratic gains in the proper perspective, we must first consider their 1980 losses. In that year incumbent defeats in divisive primaries, scandal, and infirmity account for five seats. The defeats of prominent liberals like Bath, Church, Culver, Durkin, McGovern and Nelson were the basis of the grand interpretations of the outcomes. But as a class these were exceedingly vulnerable candidates. Excepting Nelson, their average vote in the preceding election was 53 percent, and their previous election was 1974--the most disastrous Republican year in a generation. In short, these liberal Senators were living on borrowed time. Had 1974 been...
...what we mean, compare the results of last Tuesday's election with the results of a Crimson poll on students' political preferences. We think you'll be surprised--even for a George McGovern-voting state like Massachusetts...