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• The Hart and Mondale folks have been talking informally to see if they can make a deal, it's reported.
  The good news so far is they've apparently agreed to limit nuclear weapons....
• Aunt Ilse from Oelwein wonders why no one thinks Mr.
  Mondale has a chance to beat Mr. Reagan. "Any country that can choose old," she writes, "can just as easily choose boring....
• How about that footage on the news yesterday of our new Commander-in- Chief on the deck of the aircraft carrier (Teddy Roosevelt?
  ).. After throwing one of his snappy salutes (he's *almost* got that down), I half expected him to give the order, "Let's turn this thang around....
• Gerry Ferraro is proving a more exciting campaigner than Fritz Mondale.
  To have avoided that, Mr. Mondale would have had to run with, uh, Mr. Mondale....
• There was two businessmen, whose names happened to be Mr Turtle and Mr Carro
  and one day as they were coming back from lunch Mr Turtle says to Mr Carrot, "You know, you're getting fat", to which Mr Carrot says "You're not so slim yourself!...
• Every war in this century began and was fought under a Democrat administration," Mr.
  Goldwater says. Luckily, however, a few Republican soldiers agreed to fight....
• Although picking Gerry Ferraro was a bold move for Mr.
  Mondale, an even bolder one would have been to pick Jane Wyman....
• Mr. Reagan currently leads Mr. Mondale by 10 to 15 points in the polls.
  And even more in the calendars....