Word: bandwagoners
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...hopes of both Humphrey and Muskie may have been tinged with a lingering disbelief. Here was plain, slow-spoken George McGovern, minister's son, prairie populist, leading the armies of commitment and ideological chic. However ruggedly colorless the driver, his bandwagon rolled flamboyantly on, bright with the fresh-faced young and the movie stars and intellectuals who had found their new political vehicle. Behind a superbly organized and financed army of volunteers, McGovern had all but won the delegate battle through the primaries and state conventions. It was a neat touch that he was playing by the party reform...
EVEN the Freshman Council jumped on the bandwagon of those investigating HSA. A freshman poll taken in March revealed wide scale dissatisfaction with HSA linen and HSA refrigerators. Of 188 students subscribing to the linen service, 63 per cent said they were dissatisfied. They complained about inconvenient hours at the depots, the price of the linen, short sheets and dirty linen. Of 119 freshmen renting HSA refrigerators, 74 per cent said they were dissatisfied and cited the expense, the low quality and poor service as their main complaints...
From its inception, it has criticized Muskie and Democratic National Committee Chairman Lawrence O'Brien as standpatters. When McGovern announced his candidacy early last year, the New Democrat hailed the news as "a flash of hope in a darkening landscape." Schlesinger advised his readers to "eschew the Muskie bandwagon until, regrettably, that is the only one remaining," but held off formally endorsing McGovern in print until last month, lest the publication be dismissed out of hand as a McGovern mouthpiece. Now that Muskie's candidacy has collapsed, the monthly has turned its fire on Hubert Humphrey...
...settings and colorful pageantry, it provides "posh escapism," as Glenda Jackson calls it. "People," she says, "like going back to black-and-white days when people lived their lives by absolute standards." Producers in turn like what audiences like, and they have been quick to jump on the Tudor bandwagon. Vivat, after all, was a hit in London two seasons...
...further the bandwagon psychology, the Muskie strategists won endorsements from big names in the party: California Senator John Tunney, Ohio Governor John Gilligan, Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson III, Iowa Senator Harold Hughes, Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp. Each new name made the nomination seem that much more inevitable. This was organizing the party drive from the top down, rather than from the bottom...