Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stands before the cheering delegates at the Republican National Convention, his arms held high with those of the polished performer who put him on the ticket, George Bush will appreciate that he faces a daunting task. Reagan will be running against Walter Mondale, a known political quantity if ever there was one. But after four years of studious self-effacement, Bush will have to do what no major-party candidate has ever done before: pit himself against a female opponent, a brash and buoyant counterpoint to the buttoned-down Texan from Connecticut. "I'm a candidate for an office...
Comforting thought for the Republicans gathered in Dallas this week: they have no great need to make their convention a gripping TV show. Unlike the Democrats who met in San Francisco last month, the Republicans need not seize the nation's attention for their ticket and message. Their task is the much easier one of riding along with a remarkably buoyant, upbeat mood in the nation-by some measures, the most euphoric in at least a decade-and doing nothing that might erode the comfortable lead that Ronald Reagan had built before the first delegate arrived in Texas...
...that a Democratic loss will be interpreted by some as a vote against a woman on the ticket...
When the Republicans gather in Dallas next week for their national convention, they will have a gleaming set, a boffo headliner and a friendly audience in the hall. But then the plot thins. For the first time since 1972, neither spot on the ticket needs to be filled. There are no renegades challenging the incumbent, no festering party feuds. The few philosophical conflicts that do exist are subterranean, more likely to be peaceably resolved in the dim light of back rooms than in the glare of prime time. So confident is President Reagan of a congenial coronation that he will...
...next state up, Alaska, will yield to the President's home state of California, so that Governor George Deukmejian can nominate Bush. Arizona, the third state in line, will promptly move to close nominations. Then there will be a single roll call to endorse the Reagan-Bush ticket...