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Last week's voting left Democrats in a dismaying but not unusual situation: divided and confused. "The Democratic Party has the greatest death wish known to man," says Pollster Darden. Notes Florida Attorney General James Smith, an uncommitted delegate who is leaning toward Hart: "The party is struggling to find itself. A lot of Democrats just don't know what they want. The people that want new ideas on the one hand and the people from the old school on the other just seem worlds apart." Mondale still has not been able to bridge that gap, and until he does, or someone else does, the Democrats will not be able to forge a path to the White House.
— By Evan Thomas. Reported by Sam Allis with Mondale and David Beckwith with Hart, and other bureaus