Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite Domenici's popularity, state Democratic Party leaders had hoped they could give him a run for his money this time around. The Democrats have become increasingly adept with voter registration drives, efforts which paid off handsomely in 1982 when they reclaimed one Senate seat, won the governorship, and gained more congressional votes statewide than the GOP. The leadership was banking on a tough fight for Domenici's seat by Judy Pratt, a charasmatic former state senator who would be New Mexico's first woman senator...
...Utah, it is the Republicans who are hoping to take a governorship away from the Democrats. With popular Democratic Governor Scott Matheson stepping down after two terms, the established f front runner in the race to succeed him is Norman Bangerter, speaker of the Utah house, who is campaigning on a promise to make state "government more efficient. A poll two weeks ago by the Deseret News showed him leading his Democratic opponent, former Congressman Wayne Owens, 51% to 39%, with the remainder undecided. Owens is seeking to close the gap by making a five-week walk across the state...
...among women, equality remains a goal rather than a reality. In 1982 only 55 women ran for the 435 House seats, and only 21 won. Only three women ran for the Senate, and all three lost. In 1974 Ella Grasso of Connecticut became the first woman to win a governorship without having followed her husband into the statehouse. Today Kentucky's Martha Layne Collins is the only female Governor...
Senator Dale Bumpers, 58, of Arkansas has lots of natural pizazz and down-home charm. A Marine sergeant in World War II, he practiced law and ran a hardware store in Charleston, Ark. (pop. 1,748), before he decided to try for political office. In 1970 he won the governorship. After a second term, he was elected to the Senate. "Dale is a cross between John F. Kennedy and a Methodist minister," ventures Little Rock Attorney Robert Brown, a former Bumpers aide. "He really turns on a crowd...
...Mario Cuomo offer up 400 exhaustive and, at times, exhausting pages chronicling his ascension to the governorship of New York State? Political books are rarely written merely to enrich the intellectual content of bourgeois existence. Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.) did not churn out A New Democracy because he fancied himself a renaissance man, nor did Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) pen a how-to nuke freeze guide because he could only express his heartfelt convictions in mass market soft-cover...