Lengthening tallies.AFTER a decisive victory Meaning A Decisive victory is an indisputable military victory of a battle that determines or significantly influences the ultimate result of a conflict. It does not always coincide with the end of combat. in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (see "New York, New York," by Richard Brookhiser Richard Brookhiser, an American journalist, biographer and historian, is a senior editor at National Review and columnist for The New York Observer. He is most widely known for a series of biographies of America's founders, including Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur , p. 34), Walter Mondale Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale (born January 5, 1928) is an American politician and member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (largely established by former Vice President Hubert Humphrey). rolled to a solid win in Pennsylvania. Once again, the voters of the nation's rusting Northeastern foundry came through for him. The primary season has now reached the delegate-counting stage, and most tallies give Mondale more than half of the 1,967 votes he needs to win. The Hart camp gallantly claims that their man will recoup as the campaign shifts to the West. Yet there are still three big Northern states left (Ohio, Indiana, and New Jersey), with nearly four hundred votes among them; and two large Southern states (Texas and North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. ), with nearly three hundred. A few Mondale wins in those contests will make Hart's task further West virtually impossible. Mondale's successes, however, bring him problems that will be very difficult to solve, if they are solvable at all. Many who have been voting for Gary Hart in these primaries are only loosely attached to the Democratic Party, and many others think of themselves as independents. Polls indicate that as many as 30 per cent of them may vote for Reagan if Mondale becomes the nominee. Mondale's personal style and old-fashioned interest-group politics have next to no appeal for such voters. Mondale also has a looming Jesse Jackson problem [see "Mr. Big," below], with Jackson serving up a poisonous smorgasbord composed of anti-Semitism, demolition of the Southern runoff primary, huge defense cuts, and Third World leftism left·ism also Left·ism n. 1. The ideology of the political left. 2. Belief in or support of the tenets of the political left. left . The man whom Mondale served as Vice President won the nomination and the White House chiefly as a champion of wholesomeness ("a President as good as the American people"). But he also ran as an outsider--a bringer of fresh perspectives and new agendas. If the Democrats continue to repudiate TO REPUDIATE. To repudiate a right is to express in a sufficient manner, a determination not to accept it, when it is offered. 2. He who repudiates a right cannot by that act transfer it to another. Hart, they will be reaching beyond him, and beyond Carter, for old formulas, first crafted in the New Deal, and perfected by Mondale's mentor, Hubert Humphrey--forgetting that it was the very exhaustion of those formulas that made Carter, and after him Reagan, possible. |
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