The Nation - News from Nov. 20, 1986
Although Colorado Sen. Gary Hart remains the popular favorite for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination, the wide gap that separated Hart and runners-up New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo and Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee A. Iacocca earlier this year has narrowed sharply, according to a Gallup Poll. Hart currently receives 32% of Democrats’ and Democratic-leaning independents’ combined first- and second-place nomination votes. Cuomo and Iacocca are statistically tied as runners-up, receiving 27% and 26% of the votes, respectively.
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