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Article: 7 Dems now dark horses and more may join the race
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 10, 1987
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WASHINGTON They're all dark horses now.
The startling collapse of Gary Hart's flawed front-running
campaign has converted the scramble for the Democratic presidential
nomination into a wide-open race, and may have increased prospects
that the party's standard bearer won't be chosen until the 1988
convention, political analysts in and outside the party say.
That hasn't happened since Illinois Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson was
chosen over Tennessee Sen. Estes Kefauver on the third ballot at the
1952 Democratic convention. The last multiballot Republican
convention was in 1948.
"It's wide open," said election expert Richard Scammon, voicing a
commonly held view. "It's pure speculation as to ...