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...imagine he said it as if he were confessing a deep, dark secret. And, of course (wink, wink), he had no idea his little confession would make the rounds. But when Sergio Bendixen, Hillary Clinton's pollster and resident Latino expert, told the New Yorker after her win in New Hampshire that "the Hispanic voter--and I want to say this very carefully--has not shown a lot of willingness or affinity to support black candidates," he started a firestorm of innuendo that has begun to shape how the media are covering the race for the Democratic presidential nomination...
...says, according to polls done for the nonpartisan National Council of La Raza and others, that Hispanics care about education above all, with jobs and the economy a strong second. "They think family values are about putting food on the table and sending a child to college," says Sergio Bendixen, pollster for the New Democrat Network, a centrist Democratic group that is spending more than $6 million on Spanish-language...
Like Hart, Cranston's candidacy depends on coming in third place today, according to campaign manager Sergio Bendixen. The senior staffers in his organization, including Bendixen himself, are almost all new to the candidate-a few have been involved in previous Presidential efforts, but most are "young people who've never been in any Presidential campaign before," Bendixen says. Like Hart, Cranston lets his campaign manager make all the decisions, except for the "general game plan;" Bendixen calls that an "ideal arrangement...
...Syria was a political coup that the seven other Democratic candidates could only envy and praise. For most of a week, the black minister's exploits topped the evening news and produced big newspaper headlines. Even a primary win would not have attracted more publicity, conceded Sergio Bendixen, Alan Cranston's campaign manager. Maxine Isaacs, Mondale's press secretary, said of the former Vice President's staff, "If we were younger and less experienced, we'd be depressed." With one stroke, Jackson, by successfully gaining the release of Navy Flyer Robert Goodman, gave his campaign...
...officials have forced candidates to try to build in advance a large base of national support rather than focus on a few early contests. "With 2,000 delegates to be chosen in three weeks, you've got to get your money and political support in 1983," explains Sergio Bendixen, the manager of Cranston's campaign. Says Hart: "It's a highly specialized effort at this point aimed at active Democrats who are concerned with the political process...