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Now talk among Democratic pols is how to put Humpty-Dumpty together again. Washington Post rundown indicates doubt that it can be done. Former Carter aide Hamilton Jordan thinks Ronald Reagan can be beaten but adds: “I’m not so sure that as a party we’ve left ourselves, or the candidates have left us, in a very good position to do that. I hope to hell I’m wrong.” . . . Gov. Bruce Babbitt of Arizona was even more dismal: “I think what we have left is a pudding without a theme.” . . . Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert Strauss feels problem is compounded by Reagan’s political skills. “That guy,” he says, “could go through a car wash in a convertible and not get wet.” . . . Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young’s suggestion for unifying the party is a Mondale-Hart ticket running on a Jesse Jackson platform. . . . But that brings up problems with the Jewish community. Nathan Perlmutter of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith has called on DNC Chairman Charles Manatt to disavow Jackson or lose a large part of the Jewish vote. Manatt says he will not disavow Jesse or—in a moment of candor on Meet the Press—“the millions of new voters he’s bringing into the process.” . . . Going into megaTuesday, Hart’s A New Democracy had slipped to ninth place on Washington Post’s best-seller list. Any bets it will be on the list next Sunday?

At other levels, mega-Tuesday Democratic primaries went mostly to leftmost candidates. In South Dakota, George Cunningham, a former McGovern aide, will oppose Republican Sen. Larry Pressler in November. . . . In New Mexico, the well-to-the-left-of-center Judy Pratt will take on Republican Sen. Pete Domenici. . . . Former Gov. William Winter of Mississippi will run against Republican Sen. Thad Cochran (who is, at moment, well ahead in polls), and a black state representative, Robert Clark, has won Democratic nomination in Mississippi’s newly redistricted 2nd CD. He could become Mississippi’s first black member of Congress since Reconstruction. . . . John D. Rockefeller IV, some million personal campaign dollars later, has won West Virginia Democratic senatorial primary for seat Sen. Jennings Randolph is relinquishing. . . . Rockefeller’s long-time GOP rival, former Gov. Arch Moore, is running for governor this year, and favored to win. (Moore says the reason he didn’t go for Senate is that he’s tired “of running against Fort Knox.”) … In New Jersey, Mayor Mary Mochary of Montclair won opportunity to face a toughie, Sen. Bill Bradley, by defeating former Internal Security chief counsel Robert Morris in GOP primary. . . . And Block Islanders voted overwhelmingly to secede from Rhode Island unless the state permits them to control the use of mopeds on the island.

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Now talk among Democratic pols is how to put Humpty-Dumpty together again. Washington Post rundown indicates doubt that it can be done. Former Carter aide Hamilton Jordan thinks Ronald Reagan can be beaten but adds: “I’m not so sure that as a party we’ve left ourselves, or the candidates have left us, in a very good position to do that. I hope to hell I’m wrong.” . . . Gov. Bruce Babbitt of Arizona was even more dismal: “I think what we have left is a pudding without a theme.” . . . Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert Strauss feels problem is compounded by Reagan’s political skills. “That guy,” he says, “could go through a car wash in a convertible and not get wet.” . . . Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young’s suggestion for unifying the party is a Mondale-Hart ticket running on a Jesse Jackson platform. . . . But that brings up problems with the Jewish community. Nathan Perlmutter of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith has called on DNC Chairman Charles Manatt to disavow Jackson or lose a large part of the Jewish vote. Manatt says he will not disavow Jesse or—in a moment of candor on Meet the Press—“the millions of new voters he’s bringing into the process.” . . . Going into megaTuesday, Hart’s A New Democracy had slipped to ninth place on Washington Post’s best-seller list. Any bets it will be on the list next Sunday?

At other levels, mega-Tuesday Democratic primaries went mostly to leftmost candidates. In South Dakota, George Cunningham, a former McGovern aide, will oppose Republican Sen. Larry Pressler in November. . . . In New Mexico, the well-to-the-left-of-center Judy Pratt will take on Republican Sen. Pete Domenici. . . . Former Gov. William Winter of Mississippi will run against Republican Sen. Thad Cochran (who is, at moment, well ahead in polls), and a black state representative, Robert Clark, has won Democratic nomination in Mississippi’s newly redistricted 2nd CD. He could become Mississippi’s first black member of Congress since Reconstruction. . . . John D. Rockefeller IV, some million personal campaign dollars later, has won West Virginia Democratic senatorial primary for seat Sen. Jennings Randolph is relinquishing. . . . Rockefeller’s long-time GOP rival, former Gov. Arch Moore, is running for governor this year, and favored to win. (Moore says the reason he didn’t go for Senate is that he’s tired “of running against Fort Knox.”) … In New Jersey, Mayor Mary Mochary of Montclair won opportunity to face a toughie, Sen. Bill Bradley, by defeating former Internal Security chief counsel Robert Morris in GOP primary. . . . And Block Islanders voted overwhelmingly to secede from Rhode Island unless the state permits them to control the use of mopeds on the island.