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February 1988
GORE SWEEPS IOWA
'Saganmania' routed utterly in first results
--New York Times, Feburary 9th, 1988

Sagan Picks Up NH Win
Further Northeastern Victories Expected
--Concord Monitor, Feburary 17th, 1988

South Dakota Another Early Win for Gore
Minnesota Won by Mondale, Expected to Vote Gore at Convention
--USA Today, February 25th, 1988

Sagan Takes Maine
Northeast Taken by Saganmania
--Boston Herald, Febrary 29th, 1988
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"The Midwest results were pretty bad news for us. We could not win on Sagan's base alone. We needed either the South or the Midwest, and Gore just appealed to them more. Without a big win, we were going to be dead in the water.

"We remember the nation gripped by 'Saganmania' now, but it was actually pretty close. He wasn't a popular guy, not among the older generation. The divorces, the secularism, the borderline socialist platform... they didn't want it. It was killing us. We needed a miracle."
--James Carville, in an interview with Time Magazine, October 2000 issue

"Yet again, I am forced to question why I need be labelled a 'communist' to care for the people of America. For the people I see all around me now, you people of Florida, fellow human beings."
--Carl Sagan, in a rally in Miami, Florida, Feburary 20th, 1988

An Unlikely Challenger: Pat Robertson's Path to Victory
How the ultraconservative minister can beat Bush in the age of Carl Sagan
--Washington Post op-ed, after Robertson pulls an upset victory in Iowa, Feburary 9th, 1988

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