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Hart appealed to groups other than the young, upwardly mobile voters who form the core of his support (see following story). He does run best among upper-income and better-educated voters. But exit polls in the South showed the Senator winning support in nearly every income and occupational group. In Florida, he even made some inroads into the state's large community of retired people, despite the pro-Mondale efforts of 83-year-old Congressman Claude Pepper. Said Stephen Purdy, 75, of Pensacola, explaining his vote for Hart: "I suppose that I would like to see a change...
Mondale's strength, in contrast, appears from exit polls to be heavily concentrated among traditional Democrats: union members, lower-income voters, those blacks who have not joined the Jackson camp (Hart's voters, so far, have been almost exclusively white). But even some fervent Democrats, noting Hart's appeal to independents, are finding a new reason to choose the Coloradan. Says Reno Electrician Gary Willis: "If you're a Democrat, the key question is, Who can beat Reagan? Who can turn the voters out? People don't think that Mondale...
Last Saturday afternoon Hart won 61% of the Wyoming caucus vote to Mondale's 36%, adding to his political velocity. By then Hart had achieved a kind of effervescent mass appeal, his popularity fueling itself. His surge was not altogether political: a CBS News exit poll in Vermont found his greatest strength among self-described 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...
...freeway to Encino we talk about cars and boats and nothing. We take the Havenhurst exit, and Jackson says, "This is our neighborhood." We cross Ventura and almost immediately turn into a driveway with an iron gate that swings slowly open. A TV camera stares into the car. "Everybody knows who's comin' now," Jackson says. The gate shuts and we pass a guard station. A uniformed man nods his head to Jackson. We start down a driveway Lined with well-trimmed shrubs. At the end, on the right, stands a four-car Tudor-style garage. Above...
...informal Crimson exit poll of 40 Harvard students yesterday afternoon showed Colorado Democrat Hart in the lead with 45 percent of the vote. McGovern followed, with 20 percent, while Mondale, Rev Jesse Jackson, and Reagan each received 10 percent of the student vote surveyed...