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...stump, Mondale has not had much success making an issue of the federal deficit. But on Sunday night he aggressively pressed Reagan for his "plan" to deal with the problem. "President Reagan takes the position [the deficit] will disappear by magic," scoffed Mondale. Reagan insisted that he would not raise taxes, and that the recovery would produce the needed revenues to close the budget gap. Reagan charged, "I don't believe that Mr. Mondale has a plan for balancing the budget. He has a plan for raising taxes." But at moments the President seemed defensive. He insisted that high...
Nonetheless, Mondale has found a central domestic theme for his campaign, which he is hammering at relentlessly in every stump appearance and in TV spots. Like a majority of non-Government experts, including TIME'S Board of Economists, he contends that in the long run the U.S. simply cannot tolerate uncontrolled deficits. He now has a "tough" plan for curbing them, Mondale insists, while Reagan has no plan at all-or anyway none that the President dares disclose to the voters. In a fiery speech in St. Louis, Mondale denounced Reagan's "happytalk campaign...
...campaign season is under way, but more than one president is out on the stump. The nation's colleges and universities are vying for some $5 billion in gifts from corporations, foundations and private citizens. Bowdoin College in Maine kicks off a $56 million fund-raising drive this fall. The University of Southern California is gearing up for a $500 million campaign. Another California university, Pepperdine, is pushing its $100 million "Wave of Excellence" effort. Such fund raising is nothing new; private colleges and universities have been passing the hat for centuries...
Democrats cling to a few wild cards. Although the choice of Ferraro as running mate does not seem to have helped Mondale much in the polls, it may have stemmed further erosion. Many reporters watching Ferraro on the stump feel that the excitement she generates at almost every stop may translate into an unexpectedly large number of votes for the ticket in November, particularly among the Yuppies. Typical was an impromptu rally last week in a hotel lobby in conservative Spokane, Wash.: it was so jammed that the fire marshal had to turn away 300 to 500 people, but most...
Mulroney, on the other hand, campaigned like a lottery winner, smiling perpetually and pumping every hand in sight. He perfected a punchy stump speech, delivering it in French and English with equal ease. Mulroney's wife Mila, 31, turned out to be the election's second-best campaigner; pretty and vivacious, she charmed even jaded journalists. The Tory candidate shone in the three televised debates, especially when he attacked Turner for the Trudeau patronage plums. "You chose to say yes to old attitudes and the old stories of the Liberal Party," he charged. When the Prime Minister held...