Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxi!cher From: cher@ihuxi.UUCP (Mike Musing) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: How Jackson Defeated Reagan Message-ID: <1011@ihuxi.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 15:14:19 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxi.1011 Posted: Thu Aug 9 15:14:19 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Aug-84 02:43:01 EDT References: <1035@ihuxm.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 14 > Meanwhile, if Mondale and Ferraro have the courage to > inspire the constituencies that Jackson brought in, > then Jesse indeed will be known as "the man who defeated > Reagan in 1984." > > Andy Berman Even if they had the courage to inspire Jackson's constituencies they could not do so without significantly losing their own constituencies to Reagan. Remember what happened in democratic Chicago with the arrival of a black democratic candidate. I think Jackson's drive could still help Mondale/Ferraro if they play cautiously.