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President Reagan kicked off the final campaign swing of his political career yesterday with a visit to Boston and a call to Democrats and younger voters to join him "down that path of hope and opportunity...
...fielded some generally soft questions from high school and college students on a two-day foray into the South and Midwest, and his answers grew tighter and more effective as the trip progressed. Mondale had been working with three foreign policy experts, and they accompanied him on a Western swing on Monday, grilling him with possible debate questions during a three-hour flight between St. Louis and San Francisco. The trio of wise men were two former Carter Administration officials?David Aaron, a deputy to National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Walter Slocombe, a onetime Defense Department official?and Barry...
...Democratic surge last week has been to set up the second and final Reagan-Mondale debate, scheduled for Sunday night in Kansas City, as perhaps the decisive event of the campaign. A strong performance by Reagan could silence the whispers about his age and competence and squelch any swing to Mondale well before it reaches the danger point. But a second Mondale victory could convert what is still only an incipient erosion of the President's big lead into mass defections. The subject, defense and foreign policy, holds some dangers for the White House. The first debate centered on domestic...
When exhaustion hits, her spunk can turn to bile. At the end of a rugged four-day campaign swing, she gave an ungenerous press conference. "Where have you been?" she snapped to a not-too-acute questioner, and said to another, "I answered that before-wasn't I loud enough?" Republicans contend that displays of her clackety-clack Queens, N.Y., style put off vast numbers of voters. Says one White House aide of Ferraro: "She comes across as too abrasive." Richard Wirthlin, the President's pollster, suggests her audiences are swollen by the converted and the merely curious...
...paraphrase his own words, it is better to lose a campaign based on the issues of compassion and fairness rather than win one by appealing to self-interest. And now, there's a glimmer of hope that Mondale could even win on the right way-or, at least, swing a few congressional seats in trying...