Word: bayh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ranking G.O.P. officials, Jackson was recently rated the Democrat Richard Nixon would find most difficult to defeat. In a July poll of Democratic leaders, he comes in a surprising second to Muskie, and leads Hubert Humphrey, Teddy Kennedy and George McGovern. Says another Democratic hopeful, Indiana's Birch Bayh: "There is a lot of support around the country for Scoop." When Hughes bowed out, he confessed: "I didn't take Jackson seriously, but I take him very seriously...
Those priorities will be largely determined by the inroads made by other candidates. Senator Birch Bayh is counting on a good showing in Florida, where he has been laying groundwork for months, and in California. Coupled with a native-son sweep in Indiana, wins in Florida and California might get him a chance at the nomination. George McGovern, the only announced Democrat, must cut deeply into Muskie's New Hampshire vote if he is to stay alive as a candidate; after that, he hopes for a win in Wisconsin to go along with a home-state victory in South...
...Wednesday Club, egged one another on in their defection. A group of Columbia Law School students unearthed the sensational statistic that Carswell had been reversed in 40 per cent of his 15,000 decisions. And inside the Senate it was the Dump Carswell Movement headed up by Senator Bayh for the Domocrats and Senator Tydings for the Republicans that pulled the final levers. "It was fantastic," Johnson aid Joe Califano said. "Ordinarily most people in this town are reluctant to use up their credit with somebody unless some personal advantage is involved. But this time nobody cared about anything like...
...differences between the 1968 and the current attempt to deny a President renomination: many of the key figures this time are not of the President's party and thus will have no leverage on the nominating process. The main speakers at Providence were Senators Edmund Muskie and Birch Bayh, contenders for the Democratic nomination. The chief organizer is former New York Congressman Allard Lowenstein, now president of the liberal Americans for Democratic Action. Democrats, of course, are heartily in favor of any anti-Nixon effort...
Still, the presidential attentions lavished on the South are being furiously emulated by the Democrats. For the first time in almost a decade, Democratic presidential aspirants are courting the South. Edmund Muskie, Birch Bayh; Henry Jackson and Hubert Humphrey have recently called on Carter to discuss the lay of the votes in '72. And Carter and his colleagues in the other Southern states are assembling a caucus to be reckoned with at convention time...