Word: bidens
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...result was that while Nixon was winning handily, Republican Senatorial Candidate Louie B. Nunn was losing a seat that had traditionally been Republican. Whatever patterns existed seemed in conflict with one another. Most of the Democrats who won surprising victories?such as Floyd K. Haskell in Colorado, Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Delaware, Dick Clark in Iowa and William D. Hathaway in Maine?are liberals. Haskell, 56, a tax lawyer, is a former Republican who turned Democrat two years ago in protest over Administration policies culminating in the U.S. movement into Cambodia. New Republican Senators-elect are mostly staunch conservatives...
...biggest Senate upsets took place in one of the smallest states. Delaware's J. Caleb Boggs, 63, after three terms as Congressman, two more as Governor, and two as U.S. Senator, was forcibly retired by Democratic Upstart Joseph R. Biden Jr., 29. Biden's most important political post until now has been two years as a member of the New Castle county council...
...Biden defeated the respected Boggs and withstood the Nixon avalanche by making his inexperience a virtue. "Politicians have done such a job on the people," he insisted during the campaign, "that the people don't believe them any more. I'd like a shot at changing that." The young Wilmington lawyer, who rides a motorcycle and plays touch football, was helped enormously by pert Sister Valerie, 26 (as campaign manager), a brace of other siblings, and parents who collectively reminded Delaware voters of the Kennedy family...
Nixon took 61 per cent of the vote in Delaware, but the two other GOP nominees were in big trouble. Senator J. Caleb Boggs appeared to have lost a close race to Democrat Joseph Biden, and Republican Governor Russell Peterson was locked in a neck-and-neck battle with challenger Sherman Tribbit that remained too close to call...
...from belittling Biden as an insignificant upstart, the opposition seems to hold him in awe, even though Boggs is running ahead. Boggs' campaign staffers charge that Biden is ambitious and wants to use the current Senate campaign as a steppingstone. His more ardent supporters agree. They are already touting Biden as a presidential possibility. He would qualify for the 1976 presidential race-by 61 days...