Volume 31, Number 15 · October 11, 1984
A Hard Act to Follow
By Murray Kempton
The Democrats barely got their campaign through Labor Day before turning their eyes from the voters to cast them coldly upon one another. The single issue left to them now seems to be whose is the fault this time. This may, of course, have been a year when any Democratic nominee was more realistically a candidate for blame than for president. But his party seems to be proceeding with ungainly haste to appoint Walter Mondale to the office of scapegoat, which looks like the only one at its disposal these days.
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