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Thin Bench. Most damaging to Carter's campaign was the setback in Oregon, where he had lost a once comfortable lead in the closing weeks to Church. Carter's Oregon campaign manager, Tom Mackey, an advance man for Robert Kennedy in 1968, ascribed the loss to insufficient campaigning and battle fatigue among the staffers caused by Carter's strategy of entering every primary except West Virginia's. Said Mackey: "I had the feeling that our people were running out of gas. With Bobby, the bench was very strong. The Carter cadre has always been thin. That...
Carter disagreed with the conclusion that the Oregon defeat, combined with previous losses in Nebraska and Maryland and his squeaker win in Michigan, meant that his campaign was stalled. But he reluctantly acknowledged a "psychological setback in momentum." The damage from the string of defeats was readily reflected in several caucus states as they continued selecting delegates. Cooled off about Carter, Missouri Democrats gave him only 28 delegates instead of the 40 that he had reckoned on. A week earlier, he ended up with only 23 pledged delegates in Virginia -17 fewer than anticipated-though at least...
...defeat of the Democratic party of Azerbaijan and also the Kurdish Republic of Kurdistan at the hands of the Iranian government in 1946 was a great setback for the national liberation movements in the area...
...strewn streets and a transit stoppage that halted their cable cars and buses. But last week some 3,900 city workers were finally back at work - and, though they had gone on strike for an extra $5.5 million, they had not won a penny. It was the most dramatic setback to date for the nation's powerful municipal unions, which have been demanding ever fatter wage boosts and thus helping to drive U.S. cities to the edge of bankruptcy. It was the citizenry that finally rebelled against the well-paid rank and file (street sweepers are currently making...
...dinner reluctantly but realistically had their minds set on Carter as their almost certain presidential nominee. Nor were those expectations changed when the news came later in the night that Carter had been narrowly upset by Idaho Senator Frank Church in the Nebraska primary. Even with that setback Carter has won twelve of 17 primaries, drawn more than 4 million votes and locked well over 600 delegates (needed to nominate: 1,505). A recent Gallup poll showed rank-and-file Democrats prefer him to Humphrey by 39-30%; the remaining 27% favor other candidates. Democratic projections of where Carter will...