Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficult it will be for anyone, Democrat or Republican, to campaign against Ted Kennedy! It just wouldn't be sporting to mention honor, courage, truth, fidelity, economy-mindedness, coverup, character, cheating, special privileges, confusion, irrationality or even such ordinary phrases as "crossing that bridge when we come to it" or "troubled waters." The list seems endless...
...trounced, 2 to 1, by Donald Fraser, a liberal Democrat who represented a Minneapolis district in Congress for 16 years. Fraser urged depoliticizing the police-department and ostentatiously discouraged campaign contributions from individual police officers...
...opponent, Gil Carmichael, a wealthy automobile dealer, won 39% of the vote when he ran against former Senator James Eastland in 1972. In this election, Carmichael emphasized his experience as a businessman, and in a state where President Carter is not very popular, Carmichael described Winter as a "national Democrat, a Carter supporter, even a Kennedy man." Cutting coattails fast, Winter responded that Carter and Carmichael were both good examples of why businessmen should not be elected to office. Carmichael had earlier predicted the outcome: "If you've got two nice guys in the same race in Mississippi...
...news was that the split on the committee was actually 8 to 7. The nine-vote formal majority included a waverer, Nebraska Democrat Edward Zorinsky, who voted for the treaty in committee as a courtesy to party leaders, but said he would oppose the pact in its present form on the Senate floor. Arizona's Barry Goldwater, who is not on the committee but is influential among Senate Republicans, also dealt the pact a heavy blow. He has decided to oppose the treaty because he doubts that the U.S. could adequately verify Soviet compliance with...
...room decorated with hand painted "Sink with Ted. Swim with Reagan" and "Reagan Forever" posters, the smiling candidate said that he had been a Democrat most of his life and that when elected, he will be the first president to hold a lifetime membership to the American Federation of Labor...