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...outcome did not seem so inevitable at the start of the year, though. Despite his winning personality, Reagan throughout his political career has been a polarizing figure who stirs strong antipathy as well as fervent support. Reagan Strategist Stuart Spencer describes the President as "an ideological incumbent who broke a lot of china as he rearranged the nation's priorities over the course of four years." Indeed, the President's advisers early in the year estimated the hardcore anti-Reagan vote at 40% of the electorate; that and the fact that more people still identify themselves as Democrats...
Noting the way cartoonists have lampooned Bush because of his erratic and occasionally quarrelsome performance this year, one top Republican strategist declared, "Bush is in danger of becoming a national joke." While that seems too harsh, it is clear that Bush's presidential stock has dropped. Some G.O.P. pros partly blame his staff...
...flicking on Tuesday evening and the vote totals appeared, the thud of defeat was at last palpable. The party has now lost four of the past five presidential elections. It is being deserted by the nation's middle class and, perhaps even worse, by the young. One Democratic strategist, a key figure in the past four presidential campaigns, seemed almost excited by his own gloominess. "This party is in the worst shape of my lifetime! The worst since the Civil War! If the old forces hold on," he said of the Democratic Establishment, "this party is not going...
...parochial agenda singlemindedly. Hispanic organizations oppose the Simp-son-Mazzoli immigration bill? Then so does the Democratic Party. Unions want to limit imports of foreign automobiles? Then so does the party. "We are the accumulated wish list of all our constituency groups," says Colorado Governor Richard Lamm. Democratic Strategist Patrick Caddell, an adviser to the Gary Hart campaign last spring, has been screaming the same thing for years. "Instead of being just fiercely protective of particular interests, like women's rights," Caddell suggests, "the party must be far more assertive about national interests...
...every major union except the Teamsters, who opted for Reagan. After stumbling badly in the early primaries, Mondale relied on union money and muscle to grind down Gary Hart in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Michigan. "Without labor, we would not have been the nominee," admits one Mondale strategist...