Word: asterisks
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Quite rightly, Anderson takes pride in the fact that he began the Republican primary campaign as a relatively obscure Congressman from Illinois who barely rated an asterisk in national opinion ratings. He wound up collecting some 2 million signatures on petitions that should put him on every state ballot as an independent candidate on Nov. 4-an achievement many experts had considered impossible...
...John Connally shuttled between his campaign stops and his enormously successful fund-raising events in the splendor of a chartered Learjet. In his final days, Connally was hopping around the South in a Fairchild F27. It was a castoff from George Bush's Iowa days, the nickname "Asterisk One" only recently scratched off the fuselage...
Once Bush moved out of the asterisk category, however, Reagan found out just how flimsy a lot of his support was. To win it back, he will have to dance farther and farther to the right--a trick that even if successful in New Hampshire and Florida, could spell disaster in Massachusetts and some midwestern states...
...shouted. "You made my night!" Then he asked an aide: "But what does this mean?" When the statewide results were in, the meaning was plain enough and Bush exulted with raised eyebrows and a self-satisfied grin: "We have done the unthinkable when everyone put us down as an asterisk four months...