Word: bayh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) opened his Massachusetts presidential primary campaign yesterday in Boston...
...Bayh, who is the ninth Democrat to enter the race for the nomination, said he is running for the Presidency "to prove to those who have lost confidence that government can control those forces that often appear more powerful than government itself...
Harrington feels that the best thing that socialists can do in the immediate future is support the Democratic candidate against Ford or Reagan. "There's a lot of support in DSOC for Bayh, Udall and Harris," he says. I ask him how far to the middle of the spectrum DSOC is ready to go...would it support Humphrey? "I can't speak for the Committee as a whole, but I personally would find Humphrey very acceptable. Hubert's always been a favorite of mine." "And how about Jackson?" Harrington doesn't flinch: "We'll cross that bridge when we come...
Even with these credentials, however Bayh was a surprise winner over second-place Mo Udall and third-place Jimmy Carter. The Indiana delegation had done little or no campaigning, while the Tennessee and Georgia delegates had plastered Carter's craggy smile all over walls, chairs, and their own chests, and the Arizona Young Democrats had hosted a crowded free-breakfast-with-Udall just before the vote. What seems to have made the campaigning irrelevant was the highly disproportionate number of delegates allowed from the different states...
...primary reasons were financial--delegates had to get to St. Louis on their own. Thus, host state Missouri had over 40 delegates, and nearby Indiana over 30. While St. Louis was probably the most geographically central location, it did result in a heavy preponderance of delegates from Birch Bayh's backyard. Despite this disproportionate representation, the press reported the straw vote as a significant indicator of youth's preferences and as a needed boost to Birch Bayh's presidential campaign...