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• Mr. Mondale plans to kick off his campaign in the South, it's reported.
  To this ticket, however, the South may mean South Bend....
• 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....
• Mr. Mondale says he'd raise taxes if elected and says Mr.
  Reagan will too. If he's going to base this campaign on truth and candor he's got even less chance than we thought....
• Mr. Mondale calls Mr. Reagan's statement that he has no plans for a tax increase a "fish story.
  It looks as if this campaign will be no different from most others: carp, carp, carp....
• 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....
• Mr. Reagan currently leads Mr. Mondale by 10 to 15 points in the polls.
  And even more in the calendars....
• Mr. Reagan says he's engaged in "quiet diplomacy" with the Soviets, and we gather that means more than that he's simply turned the volume down on his hearing aid.
  A new poll shows most Democrats want a Mondale-Hart ticket....
• Mr. Mondale and Mr. Reagan have agreed to at least one debate.
  So far, however, there's no word on whether any voters have agreed to listen....
• It is essential that Ronald Reagan be defeated," Mr.
  Mondale says. Not if taxpayers want to avoid supporting another former president....