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...that the early votes will be splintered, there is a distinct advantage to having a regional base, especially if no one else does. Gore's base helped him enter the new year with nearly $2.4 million in ready campaign cash, second only to Michael Dukakis among Democrats. Consultant Bob Squier calls Gore's ability to build a regional support system the "first institutional breakthrough among the Democrats...
Like shipwrecked sailors on an isolated atoll, nervous Democrats have been constantly scanning the horizon for signs that they may yet be saved from having to nominate any of the existing contenders. Needless to say, Hart up to now has not figured prominently in these rescue scenarios. But Robert Squier, | a Democratic media consultant, says that "the more candidates you have in, the more the brokered convention seems feasible." He notes, "It's probably good for Mario Cuomo," who has ruled out a race but not a last-minute call to duty...
Democratic Media Consultant Robert Squier notes that Cuomo is conducting the perfect strategy for entering the race later: keeping his options open in the event of a deadlocked convention, or not running but holding on to his power in the party. The other candidates affect unconcern, saying they take Cuomo at his word. But privately they are uneasy. Says Democratic Pollster Harrison Hickman: "What worries the others is that Cuomo is the one guy who can run his own way without following the normal rules. They recognize that he is different from anyone else...
...TIME by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman found that when Americans step into the voting booth, 61% of them switch between parties. This tendency may be accentuated by the fact that local concerns weigh far more heavily than national issues in this year's congressional races. Says Democratic Media Consultant Robert Squier: "It's almost as if the states have seceded from the national parties...
...Huddleston defeat taught campaign consultants another lesson as well. "An attack unanswered," says Squier, "is an attack agreed to." In other words, you had better fight back. In Louisiana's Senate race, Republican Henson Moore's ad campaign uses a sleek series of voter-in-the-street encounters to ask the significance of the number 1,083. After a series of wild guesses -- a new tax form? the year the Normans conquered England? -- a narrator supplies the answer: the number of floor votes Democratic Candidate John Breaux has missed in 14 years in the House of Representatives...