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Through this amorphous process, tentative tiers are likely to be established well before Labor Day. Jackson, by virtue of his name recognition and core support among blacks, will do well temporarily in the polls. But he will continue to be handicapped by strongly negative reactions in surveys, a weak organization and considerable vulnerabilities in the "character" , department. For the next election at least, the top tier in the Democratic Party will be all white as well as all male...
...himself with an issue -- protectionist measures to cut the trade deficit -- that appeals to labor activists. Even those who disagree with Gephardt's approach concede that he has exploited it shrewdly. Given the fractured nature of the Hart-less field, the support of labor could boost Gephardt to top-tier status, though it may hamper the recent headway he has been making in the South...
...Administration on trade while also aggressively promoting subsidies for agricultural exports. Trade is an issue for Republicans, but among Democrats it could emerge as the salient issue, the one that helps sort out the crowded field, especially given Iowa's distressed farm economy. The difference is that second-tier candidates are all vying for the support of organized labor, which is unflinching in its protectionist fervor. That is why Gephardt stands to gain from the trade fight in Congress. Labor is unlikely to forget that Hart strongly opposed an earlier version of the Gephardt amendment when...
...employee buyout offer that kicked off the rumpus gestated for two years. It emerged from a bitter 29-day pilots' strike against United over a ^ two-tier wage scale that provided lower pay for new hires. After the dispute, F.C. ("Rick") Dubinsky and other leaders of United's branch of the Air Line Pilots Association began nurturing the buyout notion, which the union members code-named "Operation Stealthco...
Without Cuomo, the race to become an alternative to Hart develops into even more of a free-for-all. Both former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt and Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt feel that the absence of a top-tier battle between Cuomo and Hart will open the way for dark-horse candidates to pick up support and financial backing. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis will no longer be thought of as the poor man's Mario Cuomo. If he enters the race, he will be the only candidate of the urban Northeast, and can carry the flag of pragmatic liberalism. Dukakis says...