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...said one Democratic political strategist, "He's still a stiff...
...rate of about $30 billion a year. This has become a kind of reverse foreign aid with the poor giving to the rich. The situation has brought criticism even from some American institutional investors, who think the banks are pumping a dry well. Says Barton Biggs, chief portfolio strategist at Morgan Stanley: "There is simply no way Citibank can continue to increase its earnings by 15% a year on the backs of millions of sullen Latin American peons...
...Viet Nam and Watergate. Just how deep that feeling runs can be seen in the outpouring of emotion that is greeting the Olympic torch as it wends its way across the American heartland (see following story). "The country has wanted a reason to feel confident," says Republican Political Strategist John Sears. "We've felt badly about ourselves for ten or 15 years...
...Said Hart: "Welcome to overtime." He declared his campaign "must go forward, and we will." Oliver Henkel, Hart's campaign manager, insisted that "Mondale's claims of 2,008 delegates are bravado. He's still in the 1,800s by our best counts." David Mixner, a key Hart strategist in California, argued that even if Mondale winds up 200 votes over a majority by convention time, "it's a slim margin. One event, one thing done wrong, and he's gone." If Hart kept Mondale from a first-ballot win, delegates might desert Mondale in droves...
...clear evidence that the Vice President pulls much in the election except as a piece of the presidential candidate's image." Indeed, the importance of the No. 2 nominee may rest in how and why he or she was selected. Notes Hamilton Jordan, Jimmy Carter's chief strategist: "It is the first time people get to see the candidate make a substantive decision...