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By EUGENE McCARTHY Rappahannock News Guest Columnist
A wise political observer once observed “No two campaigns are different.”
After watching presidential campaigns rather closely since 1948, and having participated marginally in one or two myself, I had concluded after the 1980 campaign that the observer was right. I am having second thoughts, at least as to the current campaign of the Democratic candidates for their party’s nomination.
The first rule of Democratic candidates has been to visit four places: Israel, Ireland, and Italy, and Chicago. The first three visits were obviously to pick up the strong ethnic vote. The Chicago visit was different. Its purpose was to seek the endorsement of the longtime mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley.
Richard Daley is dead. Potential Democratic candidates are still going to Chicago, but there has been a change. They are not seeking endorsements but are going there to give them to candidates for mayor in that city’s up-coming election.
As of now, three endorsements have been given to three different candidates. Senator Kennedy, not a candidate this year, has endorsed Mayor Byrne, for re election, thus returning a favor, since she endorsed him as a candidate against President Carter in 1980. Former Vice President Mondale has gone to Chicago to endorse, as a candidate, the son of former Mayor Daley. The former
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