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With perverse consistency, voters seem to slap Mondale down every time he appears to have the nomination within his grasp. Having derailed Mondale's "juggernaut" in New Hampshire, they briefly admired him as an aggressive underdog struggling back. But after Mondale regained the role of front runner, he began behaving like one again, calling for party unity and looking ahead to the contest against Ronald Reagan. To the voters, he was no longer "Fighting Fritz." Once again he was what one party insider calls "Mondale Inc.," the buttoned-up Establishment candidate who sells shares of himself to interest groups...
...final seven primaries and one caucus will choose 571 of these delegates. In five of the remaining contests, Mondale is the underdog. He has virtually given up on Oregon (43 delegates, May 15), where the Yumpie vote is strong, and faces an uphill struggle in Nebraska (24 delegates, May 15), where popular Governor Bob Kerrey is stumping for Hart. (Last week Kerrey's sometime girlfriend, Actress Debra Winger, campaigned with Hart in Ohio.) Hart also has a slight edge in Idaho (18 delegates, May 24) and South Dakota (15 delegates, June...
...capped a spectacular comeback with a big win in Pennsylvania. Although Hart leads in state primary and caucus victories, 15 to 14, the former Vice President now holds almost a 2-to-1 lead in delegates (see chart). While he claims that he relishes the role of a feisty underdog, Mondale is the clear leader once again...
...says the Government, which is prepared to call some 80 other witnesses. The prosecution has introduced evidence, including canceled checks, to show that the judge failed to declare part of his income. The unofficial line among Las Ve gas bookmakers makes Claiborne only a 7-to-5 underdog. Explains one bookie: "The evidence against him is strong. But Harry has an awful lot of friends in Nevada...
...this welter of charge and countercharge, Hart can no longer portray himself as financial underdog to the lavishly funded Mondale. Quite the contrary; it is Mondale who is now being forced into some unaccustomed penny-pinching. Hoping to lock up the nomination early, Mondale spent heavily on the early contests; by the end of March his outlays will total about $12.5 million, and federal law permits him to use only $7.7 million more before the convention. Finance Chairman Timothy Finchem insists that will be enough to stage an effective drive through the late primaries and caucuses, but in Mondale...