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...Illinois, where 116 delegates will be chosen this week. A heavy defeat there could deal Mondale a serious blow, since the state once seemed ideally suited to display his strengths: backing by unions and the party establishment, in this case the Chicago machine. But the machine is unpopular with down-staters and suburbanites, reinforcing Hart's popularity among those groups, and with blacks, who may vote for the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Chicago resident. At week's end Hart was running neck and neck with Mondale in statewide polls...
...aides admit, there is a catch. They still assume the nominee will be Mondale, and are well prepared for a campaign against him. They will assail him as an oldfashioned, free-spending, solve-every-problem-with-a-new-Government-program liberal, and as the Vice President in the highly unpopular Carter Administration to boot. But just suppose Hart wins? The Republicans have not even begun to figure out what his vulnerabilities might be and how they might attack him. One top White House aide was asking reporters last week, in tones of genuine curiosity: "What does this guy really stand...
Those who say political polling generates a bandwagon effect claim the surveys cause voters and financial backers to follow the crowd and abandon unpopular candidates...
Johnson succeeds Saul L. Chafin. widely credited as one of the most successful Harvard Police chiefs ever for his generally successful efforts in rebuilding department morale after the troubled tenure of his predecessor. David L. Gorski Gorski become unpopular. current officers say. for what they call arbitrary decisions and an officers that made dialogue difficult...
...Harvard administration officials must be gambling on the possibility that the other 598+ students will remain silent as they go after defenseless members of an unpopular group, with whom most students (including the signers of this letter) have major political differences. The administration does not go after members of any of the larger, more popular student organizations involved in the protest, nor the unaffiliated students who formed the largest part of the protesters. We hope that not only the signers of this letter, but also a diverse range of campus opinion will condemn this blatant selective victimization. Debra M. Satz...