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...party pros are doubtful that a fourth man could emerge. "It just doesn't work that way," says Timothy Russert, an aide to New York Governor Mario Cuomo. Cuomo illustrates the dilemma. He is perhaps the most prominently mentioned alternative. Yet having endorsed Mondale and helped him mightily to win the New York primary, Cuomo is not about to turncoat. Nor would most of the delegates want to embrace such an untested, unknown prospect. Various other names float about: Party Elder Robert Strauss, Former California Governor Jerry Brown, Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers, even Chrysler Chairman...
Mondale counterattacked with his own ad showing a red phone ringing ominously in the night, as a voice asked voters whether they really wanted an "unsure, unsteady, untested hand" to answer. Declared Cuomo's political counselor, Timothy Russert: "The red phone beat the burning fuse. The phone symbolized Mondale's maturity. The fuse was hot and uncertain and excitable, and I think it blew up in Hart's face...
Exit polls support Russert: voters did doubt Hart's experience and steadiness. But as Hart points out, he had only six weeks to get his message across to a public that had barely heard of him before the Iowa caucuses (in early February, only 15% of Democratic voters could name him as a candidate). The intense magnification of instant celebrity made even Hart's slightest slip look like a lurch and sent voters scurrying into the safer, more familiar embrace of Mondale...
Still, the President seemed slightly rusty fielding questions at his press conference last week, and a little desperate to make some headlines. For all their scars, the Democrats have been hogging the limelight. They have also become nimble debaters and seasoned campaigners. Says Cuomo Aide Russert: "We love to fight. It keeps us in good shape." -By Evan Thomas. Reported by Sam Allis with Mondale and Hays Corey with Hart
...hunting ground for Mondale, New York is like Illinois, only more so. "It is more Democratic-with a big D-more ethnic, more elderly, more unionized than Illinois," says Tim Russert, counselor to New York Governor Mario Cuomo. Says a Mondale campaign official: "New Yorkers are tougher, more cynical and not as taken by the idea of newness. Plus Hart's newness has been out there a while." New York City Mayor Ed Koch backs Mondale, as do Cuomo and 55 of 62 county chairmen. Unlike Illinois, New York does not allow independents and Republicans to vote...