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...sides. As Jackson becomes a Harold Stassen with clout, a good many other Democrats are becoming apoplectic. A second loss, they had hoped, would finish him. But, as Jackson says, "no way I'm going away." So for many Democrats, both black and white, the Jackson factor is becoming the Jackson problem. "What does Jesse want?" 1988's continual refrain, has become "How do we treat him?" a code question for "How do we get rid of Jackson and still retain black support...
Humphrey's presidential campaign song in 1968 was a regrettable selection that went, "Will everyone here kindly step to the rear and let a winner lead the way." From before Humphrey to after Walter Mondale, with a lot of Harold Stassen and Viking Super Bowls in between, the hanky-waving citizenry has been desperate to be known as a winner and to lead the way. Behind 5-2 in the sixth game, they thought about despairing again, until old Don Baylor hit a two-run homer, and Hrbek a grand slam. No team had ever won all four home games...
That may be idle dreaming. A former Sunday-school teacher who has run so often for Governor that he earned the nickname the "Harold Stassen of Arizona," Mecham squeezed into office with 40% of the vote in a three-way race that split the Democratic electorate. He blames "abuse from the press" for his current problems, and as far as the recall campaign is concerned, the veteran auto dealer shows no sign of offering voters any sort of rebate, much less a brand-new model...
...Pontiac dealer and a right-winger even by the standards of conservative Arizona, Evan Mecham had previously appeared four times on the ballot for Governor, so often that he became known as the "Harold Stassen of Arizona." Thus he was not taken all that seriously by the Republican establishment. This time around, everyone assumed that Burton Barr, the G.O.P. leader of the house who had the personal backing of Ronald Reagan, would easily capture the nomination and probably go on to win the governorship that Democrat Bruce Babbitt is vacating...
...people who eat the politicians for supper. Public vanishing is a dramatic spectacle usually because it has to do with power and its loss. If a politician gives a speech and there is no one there to hear it, has he made a sound? Ask Harold Stassen. He knows something about the riddle of the tree falling in the empty auditorium...