Word: birching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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UDALL. Together with his second-place finish in New Hampshire, his strong showing in Massachusetts made him the clear favorite among the liberals. As a result, Birch Bayh effectively dropped out of the race. The other liberal candidates-Fred Harris, Sargent Shriver and Milton Shapp-stayed in the running for the present but no longer have realistic expectations of winning many delegates. Even though the liberals seemed to be coalescing around Udall, Idaho Senator Frank Church still planned to enter some of the later primaries, with the goal of picking up enough votes to become a force at the convention...
...Hotel that "with the results here in Massachusetts, we've got mo-men turn." Indeed, after second-place showings in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, the once obscure Representative and ex-pro basketball player now does have a strong surge of forward motion-at least among liberal Democrats. Senator Birch Bayh's followers in New York State, scene of Udall's next big primary on April 6, have already begun to coalesce around Udall's campaign. Says Ethan Geto, one of Bayh's New York leaders: "Based on some early soundings, the majority sentiment [among Bayh...
ACCORDING TO THE current conventional wisdom, Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana lost in last Tuesday's Massachusetts presidential primary because he was "everybody's second choice." The real reasons for his poor showing and subsequent withdrawal, however, lie in a series of miscalculations by his campaign staff, both at the national level and in Massachusetts...
Various polls have indicated that one week before the Massachusetts primary, as many as 80 per cent of the voters were still undecided. But during that last week, when the voters either made up their minds or decided not to vote, Birch Bayh was a nearly invisible candidate. While other candidates monopolized the front page news, Bayh was largely ignored. His Massachusetts campaign had run out of money for advertising. In that critically important week between New Hampshire and Massachusetts, Bayh had no radio spots, no television time, and no paid newspaper ads. Overall, Bayh spent only...
...wrong, and that he neither gained nor lost strength but got the vote he was going to get all along. But that's show business-and contemporary politicians, being showmen, are experts at poor mouthing their chances and minimizing their reverses. So you have the spectacle of Birch Bayh insisting on how well he did by finishing third...