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...prospects for a Southern Democratic Presidential candidate in 1984, then, are not great. But while the Democratic Party undergoes a deep transition and re-examines its ideological positions, its Southern wing remains strong. Southern Democrats' successes in the midterm elections will give Southerners more convention votes, and the vice presidential nomination is still an open question. If ideological and regional balancing forces work as they have in the past, then a Southerner should have an excellent chance, especially on a Mondale or Glenn ticket. In addition to the Presidential aspirants, some other Southern politicians who appear to be of Vice...
Both parties fully realize that the prolonged economic hardship has been, and still is, the nation's most important political issue. It cost the G.O.P. the 1982 midterm elections, and threatens to make Reagan a one-term President. Yet the White House has been relatively adroit lately in reducing the Democrats' ability to exploit the issue. The bipartisan compromise on Social Security blunted one Democratic attack. Last week House Speaker Tip O'Neill conceded, in a public statement, that Reagan had "kept his promise" to move promptly on a jobs measure. Thus, despite serious reverses and anemic...
Those who arrived less than an hour before the beginning of the Midterm Assessment of Reagan (8 February) were ushered into little rooms and invited to watch the event on defective TV screens. The lack of seating in the Forum is a tremendous disservice to the Harvard community. If the JOP cannot according those who interest is great enough to cause them to arrive an hour early, it should not hold public events...
...some of the sharp ideological edge has receded from Ronald Reagan's political rhetoric at midterm and a new realism shows in his policies, one Washington insider may be more responsible than any other. He is James Baker, the President's calm, soft-spoken chief of staff, who helped Gerald Ford in 1976 and George Bush in 1980 oppose Reagan for the Republican Party's presidential nomination. The former Texas lawyer has become the President's most influential White House crisis manager. Says a fellow presidential assistant about Baker...
...Neill, who is making a remarkable comeback. O'Neill was so badly outmaneuvered by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 that Republicans openly laughed at him on the floor of the House, and not a few Democrats snickered behind his back. But the recession and the midterm election that transformed the nominal Democratic House majority into a real one have made his liberalism seem more relevant. O'Neill last week told some 240 House Democrats who had just unanimously nominated him for a fourth term as Speaker: "After two years of playing defense, we are going on the offense...