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...Reagan." In Ohio, fully one-third of the voters in the Democratic primary told TV network exit pollers the same thing. In North Carolina, the exit polls anticipated a defection rate from Mondale that was even higher: 40%. A yet-to-be-released survey by Atlanta-based Pollster Claibourne Darden indicates that 70% of the voters who went with Hart in nine Southern states would vote for Reagan in November if Mondale wins the nomination...
...with fright. They can't name a single one." The pitch has just one drawback: it is not clear that Hart would do much better. Exit polls in the North Carolina and Ohio primaries revealed voters defecting to Reagan at almost the same rate if Hart gets nominated. Darden's polls reflect that Hart is no more able to be elected in the South than Mondale is. A Los Angeles Times poll published last week showed Reagan beating Mondale 53% to 41%. But the numbers were just as bad for Hart. He would lose to the President...
...conservatives, while a poll in Massachusetts found that he is preferred most by liberals. Quickest to embrace him were upscale members of the baby-boom generation, known as "initial tryers" to professional marketers. "If you've got a new concept or a new product," said Atlanta Pollster Claibourne Darden, "those are the first people who are going to examine it and evaluate...
...over delivered the expected margins for Mondale. In the judgment of House Speaker Tip O'Neill, a Mondale backer, Hart has pulled off "probably the biggest upset in Democratic politics since [Eugene] McCarthy went up against Lyndon Johnson in New Hampshire in 1968." Says puzzled Pollster Claibourne Darden, whose soundings failed to gauge the extent of the Hart surge in New Hampshire: "It's just the damnedest thing I ever...
...messages sent that this thing has opened up and it's sure more than any two-man race." Colonel Floyd Man, Glenn's campaign chairman in Alabama, said of Hart's win in New Hampshire: "Anything that takes votes away from Mondale has got to help us." But Pollster Darden doubted that Glenn could exploit the opportunity. Darden's view: "He has been so inept up to now. He punts on the first down quite often...