Word: backlashers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, the new bill gave Congressmen the opportunity to point to tangible legislation on welfare before going home to their constituents for the holidays. Unquestionably, a welfare backlash has built across the country during the past year that makes even symbolic legislation important. Some examples...
...some politicians think that a backlash of sympathy might develop for Kennedy. Says a leading House Republican: "Half the women in this country don't believe it ever happened, and the other half are dying to forgive him for it." According to an informal survey by TIME'S bureau chiefs across the nation, Chappaquiddick would not cut so deeply as an issue in a Kennedy run against Nixon as is commonly believed (see box, opposite). That could change if voters found themselves in the booths next November, forced to make a decisive judgment about the case. For the episode does...
There are several other equal opportunity provisions in the Higher Education Act that have survived the backlash in the House and deserve more publicity. The House bill would...
...would not have stood a chance against Garofoli, since the latter would have carried traditional Democratic areas. With Carney as an opponent, however, Perk could count on a large Democratic crossover. He was able to equate both of his opponents with Carl Stokes, and therefore capitalized on the white backlash. The anti-Stokes support that would have gone to Garofoli now gravitated to Perk. While both Pinkney and Carney were unfolding detailed plans to help cure the city's financial problems. Perk based his entire campaign on a law-and-order, anti-corruption, anti-Stokes platform. In a city beset...
...airport November 3 with a crowd of West Siders on their way home from work. I happened to catch a glimpse of the headlines of the Cleveland Press, which said it all: "Perk Vows Safe Streets". A series of unique circumstances compounded by Stokes' political myopia permitted the backlash to overwhelm the forces of progress in Cleveland...