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Show 6A The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday, November 27, I Ml 8 Democrats on Grueling Uphill Trail in Race to White House By Jim Fain Cox News Service Its 7:30 a. m., and John Glenn is standing on a chair in a crowded hotel suite surrounded by Jewish leaders who have come to Atlanta for a convention, Glenn is not at his best in early morning. Because he voted to sell to Saudi Arabia, he frequently has to deal with charges that he is l. He is bone-tirehaving reached his hotel in Atlanta around midnight following a day campaigning in New Hampshire, A Ped-c- ic Answer Someone asks how he feels about moving the U S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He ought to knock this one out of the park, because he has advocated doing precisely that, 8nd its a favorite cause with Jewish groups, Instead, he launches into a pedantic answer having to do with Camp David and the notion that a U S. decision on the embassy should wait until a peace settlement is nearer. He is putting people back to bed until, almost as a throwaway line, he says, Of course, the capital Is Jerusalem. Loud applause breaks out, and Glenn peers up in pleased surprise. ' It is vintage Glenn. Even when he has positions that are sure-fir- e crowd pleasers, he hems and haws until his audiences wonder whose side he's on. A Determined Mas His campaign is limping, but he Is determined man and he hangs in, doggedly if not brilliantly. Walter Mondale has no such problem delighting audiences. He has become an accomplished pitchman. He walks confidently to the podium in the Tiffany-glasse- d Cheyenne Saloon in Orlando, Fla., shaking hands along the way with union leaders who have paid $50 a pop for the privilege o! drinking beer in his presence. We need a president who under-tand- s that we need strong unions not just in Foland but in pause America," he says, and the crowd is in his pocket On the evidence of the polls, and by popular consensus, these two are the for the Democratic presidential nomination. F-1- anti-Israe- front-runne- rs Until recently, though Mondale had the endorsements of party leaders and the superior organization, Glenn showed better in the polls, especially in trial heats against Reagan. Now Mondale has begun to pull away, especially among registered Democrats who presumably will decide the nomination. The Washington press, which is over-fon- d of instant certitude but whose coverage heavily influences the politicians who endorse and the deep pockets" who give, is starting to write Glenn off. It already has pretty much written off the other six Democratic contenders, all of whom have trouble in the polls. reaching double-digit- s Ranked roughly according to their ratings, they are: Other Sis Contenders George McGovern, who lost to Richard Nixon in 1972 and came Into this race in September pledging to get U.S. troops out of Central America and Lebanon and advocating a nuclear freeze to begin, if necessary, unilaterally, Alan Cranston, the first announced candidate who has based his candidacy primarily on the nuclear freeze issue. . . Gary Hart who sought to de velop a new issues" campaign but seemed by Crynstons emphasis on nuclear freeze and lately has hitched his candidacy to womens issues, , Ernest Rollings, the distinguished-looking senator from South Carolina, who is frustrated because his candidacy is not taken seriously by the media. . Reubin Askew, former governor of Florida, the most conservative of the group, who shares frustration and describes the dilemma, with considerable accuracy, as a Catch 22. How can you get to be a serious candidate," he wonders, as long as they keep saying you're not? raisers, trying to scrape together the millions from enough states to qualify for federal matching money. And, while their headquarters in various parts of Washington bustle with cheerful volunteers and a few paid staffers, over at the White House, the well-oile- d Reagan machine is coasting. There are a few iconoclastic souls who think Reagan wont run, but the conventional wisdom U that he s teasing voters to sustain interest as he consistently did in California and to remain on the high road, free of the constraints that go with an announced candidacy, d Announcement Soon after New Years, before his address, the bed lief goes, he will stage a announcement. hard-presse- Well-Crafte- well-crafte- To many In the Washington war-pe- p of political junkies, that will be the ball game. Though the woods are who full of unbeatable tripped or were beaten by such harsh events as the Iranian hostage crisis, the tendency is to assume that todays voter attitudes are eternal. front-runne- rs Today Reagan is on a roll. Grena da touched a nerve with U.3. voters. The economy is chugging nicely. The Reagan personality as reflected on television is almost impossible to dislike. So why are Mondale, Glenn, McGovern, Jackson, Cranston, Hart, Hollings and Askew driving themselves to exhaustion, as all except McGovern and Jackson have been doing for well over a year Because the presidential bug is virulent, because they are proud competitor! and because each has a vision of his country that he feels compelled to farther. Son f Methodist preacher son of a Mondale, the Minnesota Methodist preacher, hag been accused of lacking that fire in his belly, primarily because in 1974, after testing the presidential waters, he withdrew, saying he couldn't face that many Holiday Inns. By announcing early and campaigning tirelessly this time, he has put that criticism to rest. ' A protege of Hubert Humphrey and vice president under Jimmy Carter, he long was but he remains contentedly loyal to the traditional party coalition fash d, low-keye- of energy. Jogging is a well publicized part of his campaign agenda. ot assignment He is the middle-roa- d attacking Mondale for Went After Gary Hart at 45 the youngest of the candidates, early him by making nud and clear freeze almost his single issue. This touched a nerve of the Democratic left and gave Cranston victories in several party straw polls. Like Ernest Hollings, the South Carolina senator whose He went after Gary Hart, candidate, over-promisi- but when asked to come up with alternatives. one-uppe- fuy McGovern, whose candidacy seems hopeless, is harder to explain, Friends say he feel some compulsion to justify himself after the crushing defeat by Nixon in 1372. He says he ia the only candidate with the audacity to do the things necessary to bring peace. Jesse Jackson is easy to understand. He has no illusions about getting elected. He wants to raise black political consciousness and registration. Almost certainly, he will do both. Stand with him on any predominantly black campus and you feel the chemistry as his litany warms from the familiar I am . . . somebody" chant through the outhouse to tfte courthouse to the White House moderate candidacy has been eclipsed by Glenn's, Hart is financially trapped into the race, at least for now, Cranston, Hart and Hollings all have borrowed against the matching money from the federal government that will become available early next year, They cannot drop out without losing the funds they already have earned. Reubin Askew, the former governor of Florida and U.S. trade representative under Carter, is in the black, largely because he g has concentrated on and kept his staff extremely lean. ; fund-raisin- Good news! colecovision and Texas instruments TI994A Computer are now at lower prices than circular. shown In today's - And then theres Jesse Jackson, the black candidate from the civil rights movement who is far and away the best platform performer of the bunch and th$ one with the most novel ideas. All are out busting their buns, on the stump from early morning till late night, enduring endless fund- - senator from California, is the oldest man in the race though Reaso he puts on a show gan is older fCSE! pre-empte- d HqI-ling- ss Alan Cranston, the ioned by Franklin D. Roosevelt Glenn is a disciplined battler, as befits an with a fierce if d pride and a competitive spirit. He was deeply offended when someone else got the first space-sh- pre-prlnte- d SSLS. 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