Gary Hart

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Gary Hart (b. 1936) (born Gary Warren Hartpence) was the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984, when Walter Mondale beat him by gaining endorsements from the key labor unions, and again in 1988, when liberals in the media forced him out of the race by exposing his alleged adultery. Previously he served as a Democratic U.S. Senator from Colorado (1975–1987).

Gary Hart became a casualty of scandal-mongering by the liberal media. In 1987, when Coloradan Gary Hart was the presumptive front-runner for the upcoming Democratic presidential nomination who was disfavored by East Coast liberals, a reporter at the Washington Post confronted Hart at a press conference about his alleged adultery.^[1] Another newspaper, the Miami Herald, staked out his townhouse and reported that it witnessed an attractive women enter his townhouse one evening without leaving. This caused as much criticism of the Miami Herald as of Gary Hart, but subsequently a picture of Hart with another woman on a yacht was published by the National Enquirer. Ultimately the Washington Post took credit for forcing Gary Hart out of the race:^[2]

The Washington Post reported today that Gary Hart decided to withdraw from the Presidential campaign hours after the newspaper presented a top campaign official with "documented evidence of a recent liaison between Hart and a Washington woman."

Public opinion polls still showed strong support for Gary Hart even after he pulled out. Another candidate who enjoyed greater support by the liberal media, Michael Dukakis, eventually won the nomination but lost in the general election.

References

1. ↑ Paul Taylor of the Washington Post stood up at a press conference and asked Gary Hart, "Have you ever committed adultery?" [1]
2. ↑ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEEDC1F39F93BA35756C0A961948260