Word: baker
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Carter has also taken a big lead over the major Republican candidates. In a race against the new G.O.P. front runner, George Bush, Carter wins by 49% to 28%, with 22% undecided. The President leads Ronald Reagan by 32 points and Howard Baker by 35. Kennedy, once a clear favorite, would now lose to all three of the G.O.P. front runners...
...This is our moment in the sun, our chance to feel vital," observes Julia Rivera de Vincenty, head of George Bush's campaign on the island. "We are starting to shed our second-class image." Agrees Mario Gaztambide, finance chairman for Howard Baker: "This should convince the people in Kansas that we're more than a winter playground...
...Commonwealth status. Neither has campaigned here yet, and since the G.O.P. primary occurs in less than two weeks, the spotlight is now on the Republicans. Ronald Reagan dropped out in December, after failing to win the endorsement of Governor Carlos Romero Barceló, who is staying neutral, but Howard Baker, Bush and Connally have all done some Latin politicking...
Bush hit 17 towns and villages, a seven-piece band in tow. He moved easily from cockfight to cocktail party, toured factories and housing projects. When Baker visited a few days later, he kept an equally hectic schedule, visiting shopping centers, dedicating a clinic...
Then there is the identity problem, which most candidates meet at one time or another. An elderly man in Juana Díaz cheered Connally lustily under the impression that he was Kennedy. Baker took no chances: as he made his rounds, a spotter moved ahead of him in the crowds to make sure that people shook the right hand. "El de los pantalones amarillos, "he repeated to onlookers (He's the one in the yellow pants...