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...party's collective confusion is on display from the campaign stump to Congress. Mondale preaches compassion, Hart calls for "new ideas." Old liberals like Tip O'Neill support massive jobs bills, while young reformers vote to freeze spending on all domestic programs. Southern Democrats seek to contain Communism in Central America, while Northern Democrats look at El Salvador and see Viet Nam. No center holds. "The party is floundering because it lacks a vision of where it is going," says Duke University Political Scientist James David Barber. "Where there is no vision, the parties perish...
...during her session, as women contenders. Also due in North Oaks is San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, the first Hispanic to be considered. Despite the lengthening parade of applicants, at least one experienced pol was convinced that Mondale's vice-presidential field was quickly narrowing. Predicted House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "It's going to be Hart or a woman...
...have. If the Democratic Party gave him the additional 400-odd delegates he demands to match his share of the popular vote in the primaries, it would eliminate Mondale's narrow majority and throw the convention into chaos. An ad hoc congressional committee set up by House Speaker Tip O'Neill toyed briefly with ideas such as adding nonvoting Jackson delegates to the convention and changing the rules so that Mondale could win with a simple plurality. Both proposals were rejected, and the committee instead promised to press for reform of the party rules in 1988. Said Jackson...
Back at the White House, Reagan hosted an outdoor fish fry attended by 800 Congressmen and seafood-industry officials. The fare included salmon, lobster, oysters and catfish. Conspicuous by his absence was House Speaker Tip O'Neill, whom White House aides had invited to join Reagan at the head picnic table. O'Neill's aides said the event had never been on the Speaker's schedule. Ventured an observer: "He had other fish...
...been alternately conciliatory and confrontational in both his private meetings and public statements. Jackson, who also met with Beckel last week, is annoyed that he has not had any private meetings with Mondale. After Jackson carried his complaints about "unfair" election practices to Capitol Hill, House Speaker Tip O'Neill somewhat grudgingly agreed to appoint a commission of congressional Democrats, chaired by Arizona's Morris Udall, to study the issues. Jackson argued once again, and validly, that the unfairness of the delegate selection was shown by the fact that he had received 21% of Democratic primary votes...