Word: backlashers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...musical-chairs arrangement poses some risk of a backlash for Anderson when he comes up for election in 1978. He has a 70% popularity rating as Governor because among other things, he lowered local public education costs. But a Minnesota poll found wide disapproval of his Senate scheme...
...Riegle delivered an effective "Checkers"-style explanation on TV. He apologized for his indiscretion, played on a backlash against the News and obviously convinced many voters that the 1969 incident, which occurred when his first marriage was breaking up, should not be the prime issue on which to judge him. "He almost had me in tears," said William McLaughlin, state Republican chairman. "If he keeps going he'll have everybody believing it was Esch on the tapes." Riegle also produced a TV spot similar to one used by Bob Dole in his 1974 Senate race: a billboard is shown...
...debates with the Peanut had gone fairly well, he thought, though a small slip was costly. The reference to Cornell as being "under Harvard's domination" was a mistake, and the backlash from the misstatement was severe. Upset Ithaca partisans cast ballots against Restic in a 9-3 proportion, and the loss in that precinct was a surprise to all prognosticators...
...clearly throughout the week. For the first time since Labor Day, the Democratic candidate was scoring points with the voters, as he crisscrossed the country and hit hard at Ford at every stop. In his attacks, Carter was so aggressive that it was possible he would provoke a sympathetic backlash for Ford?if the allegations about him were shown to be untrue or grossly overblown. But for the moment, the President gave the Democrats plenty to criticize...
...least the beginning of the end for "yellow-dog democracy," in which, or so it was said, Southerners would vote for a yellow dog if it were nominated by the Democratic Party. By the late 1950s, efforts by Democratic Southern Governors attracting Northern industries caused something of a political backlash. Recalls South Carolina's Fritz Rollings of his term (1959-63) as Governor: "After four years I had filled up the state with industry. Then I looked around and they were all Republicans. When you bring in GE and Westinghouse, you get the jobs, but then you see that politics...