Word: bandwagoneers
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...Humphrey, Carter had all but sealed his triumph by April 27, when he won Pennsylvania. Democratic power brokers like Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, AFL-CIO President George Meany, and others who had seen Carter as an upstart and an outsider, rushed to back him. Last aboard the bandwagon were the liberals. Carter won them over by choosing Minnesota's Senator Walter (Fritz) Mondale as his running mate and by delivering an acceptance speech that amounted to a populist vision of social reform. After the convention, with some polls giving him a lopsided 62%-to-29% lead over...
...pretty busy with the Massachusetts campaign of Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, a leading candidate for Speaker of the House. "Is he a Republican or a Democrat?" asked the Carter scout in Atlanta. "Democrat," replied an incredulous Yaz. "Well, tell him he'd better get on the Carter bandwagon," said the staffer. "In Boston," snapped Yastrzemski, "we think Carter better get on the O'Neill bandwagon...
Gerald Ford, the unelected President, had not only failed to set off a bandwagon that would guarantee him the 1,130 votes needed for a first-ballot nomination, he was even doggedly on the defensive against the amazingly persistent challenge of Ronald Reagan. Breaking tradition, Ford planned to fly to the convention city before the proceedings opened so that he could direct the tense fight to hold his dutiful, if uninspired, delegate lines. With 59 White House staffers also on hand (35 would pay their own expenses), Ford was to take charge from a suite in Kansas City...
...Washington, Big John joined the President in an endorsement press conference, pushing himself onto Page One. But he was jumping on the bandwagon rather late. Ford could have used his support long ago in the Texas primary, where he was shut out by Reagan 100 to 0. Reagan's man Sears scoffed at Connally's influence over other Republicans, calling him "a phenomenon of the press and his own wits," who "has no constituency outside a few friends in Texas." Connally has not run for office in ten years and, even if Ford picks him as his running...
...Pass the Windex, you say? Sure. All Carter had to do was find out whom Apple knew in Iowa, have volunteers knock on their doors every day for a month, give them importunate phone-calls, and Zap! Front page of the Times, a candidate is born, and the bandwagon starts tooting...