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Just where does Democratic frontrunner Gary Hart stand ideologically? Political analyst Kevin Phillips points out that scattered polls in the conservative South, in California, and among evangelicals show Hart to be favorite candidate of conservative Democrats. This despite Hart’s background: Mobilization for Peace in Sixties, McGovern 1972 campaign manager, most liberal voting record of any senator in the last Congress. . . . Human Events notes that Hart’s chief advisor on Soviet Union is Princeton Prof. Stephen F. Cohen, a regular contributor to The Nation’, his domestic advisors include Ralph Nader protege Mark Green and Tom Hayden. . . . Recent polls show Hart well ahead of Democratic field except in Massachusetts, where Michael Dukakis trails him by just three points (41 to 38). . . . David Broder’s educated guess, in Stuart Rothenberg’s The Political Report, is that “the final four [in Iowa, New Hampshire] will not consist of the four with the highest ratings at this point,” i.e., Hart and Jesse Jackson among Democrats, George Bush and Bob Dole among Republicans. . . . Newish entry in Democratic lists, Sen. Albert Gore Jr., has a few trumps: For last year and a half he has been a regular on Ted Turner’s CNN News; John Seigenthaler, his former boss on Nashville Tennessean, is now Editorial Director of USA Today.

Paul Laxalt made it official last week: He will run for President, a blow to the Jack Kemp and Pat Robertson campaigns. How big a blow remains to be seen. Laxalt starts off with heavyweights on his side: former White House staffers Lyn Nofziger and Richard Williamson, White House pollster Richard Wirthlin, and former Treasurer of the United States Angela Buchanan, sister of Pat Buchanan. . . . Right now in the polls (NBC) the standings are Bush 31, Dole 25, Kemp moving up to 12, AI Haig and Robertson trailing with 4 per cent. Too early for Laxalt to figure. . . . At recent New York Conservative Party dinner, former UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick indicated she might be interested in vice-presidential bid. Her favorite candidates are Kemp and Laxalt, in that order. She’s “not too crazy about” Bob Dole. . . . The only candidates GOP painintheneck Lowell Weicker seems to like are Democrats: “I think Hart would do well as President. Yes I do.” Weicker regrets that Mario Cuomo has taken himself out of race. On Dole: “An ineffective Majority Leader.” On Kemp: “I can give no reason why he is even considered a candidate.”

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Just where does Democratic frontrunner Gary Hart stand ideologically? Political analyst Kevin Phillips points out that scattered polls in the conservative South, in California, and among evangelicals show Hart to be favorite candidate of conservative Democrats. This despite Hart’s background: Mobilization for Peace in Sixties, McGovern 1972 campaign manager, most liberal voting record of any senator in the last Congress. . . . Human Events notes that Hart’s chief advisor on Soviet Union is Princeton Prof. Stephen F. Cohen, a regular contributor to The Nation’, his domestic advisors include Ralph Nader protege Mark Green and Tom Hayden. . . . Recent polls show Hart well ahead of Democratic field except in Massachusetts, where Michael Dukakis trails him by just three points (41 to 38). . . . David Broder’s educated guess, in Stuart Rothenberg’s The Political Report, is that “the final four [in Iowa, New Hampshire] will not consist of the four with the highest ratings at this point,” i.e., Hart and Jesse Jackson among Democrats, George Bush and Bob Dole among Republicans. . . . Newish entry in Democratic lists, Sen. Albert Gore Jr., has a few trumps: For last year and a half he has been a regular on Ted Turner’s CNN News; John Seigenthaler, his former boss on Nashville Tennessean, is now Editorial Director of USA Today.

Paul Laxalt made it official last week: He will run for President, a blow to the Jack Kemp and Pat Robertson campaigns. How big a blow remains to be seen. Laxalt starts off with heavyweights on his side: former White House staffers Lyn Nofziger and Richard Williamson, White House pollster Richard Wirthlin, and former Treasurer of the United States Angela Buchanan, sister of Pat Buchanan. . . . Right now in the polls (NBC) the standings are Bush 31, Dole 25, Kemp moving up to 12, AI Haig and Robertson trailing with 4 per cent. Too early for Laxalt to figure. . . . At recent New York Conservative Party dinner, former UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick indicated she might be interested in vice-presidential bid. Her favorite candidates are Kemp and Laxalt, in that order. She’s “not too crazy about” Bob Dole. . . . The only candidates GOP painintheneck Lowell Weicker seems to like are Democrats: “I think Hart would do well as President. Yes I do.” Weicker regrets that Mario Cuomo has taken himself out of race. On Dole: “An ineffective Majority Leader.” On Kemp: “I can give no reason why he is even considered a candidate.”