Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackson's whole existence is lined with insulation. His friends, many of whom are famous, help him keep life at bay and illusion near at hand: their celebrity, which complements his, also helps cast his everyday life with the living embodiments of public fantasy. "We might think his bubble world is fantastical," says one of his most sympathetic pals. "But to him it's very real. My only fear is that he'll step out and become like everybody else. He is too special the way he is. He is not immune. If he steps out of that world...
...Bay State voters will actually only select a little over half of the common-wealth's 116 convention delegates and 39 alternates when they vote today. Except for 14 slots, the remainder will not be chosen until the Democratic State Convention in early June. The 68 delegates elected today will represent voter preferences in Massachusetts congressional districts. Each of the eleven congressional districts will send an equal number of representatives to San Francisco except for the fifth district and Cambridge's eighth district which, based on the democratic turnout in the last presidential and gubernatorial election, will receive an extra...
Massachusetts, say the workers in the South Dakotan's campaign, is McGovern country. The Bay State was the only state in the Union to cast its electoral votes for McGovern in the 1972 presidential election. Although the District of Columbia also threw its support to the Democrat, Richard M. Nixon won that election in one of the biggest landslides in American political history...
George McGovern cherishes the hope of once again carrying Massachusetts, the only state he took from Richard Nixon when he was the Democratic nominee in 1972. So, after a fifth-place, 5.2% finish in New Hampshire, he decided to stay in the race through the Bay State primary on Super Tuesday. If he does not finish at least second there, he says, he will quit; even a victory would not make him a serious threat to win the nomination. His presence could be a problem for Hart and Mondale in what has become a vital state for both, less because...