Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson rolled over the Elis, 18-0, Saturday to round out its first perfect season in 165 years of competition with nine wins. The shutout was its fifth during a campaign in which it outscored its opponents...
...ruined Yale's bid for an undefeated season and turned an otherwise dismal 1979 Harvard campaign into a bacchanalian celebration. More than 72,000 fans--the largest Bowl crowd since 1954--streamed onto the field here two seconds before the final gun, mobbing the Harvard players and wreaking havoc in otherwise boring New Haven...
...relying on personality and a few wellknown positions as well as on the backing of the ever-powerful CCA. No liberal council candidate has ever run as well as David Sullivan, who appealed in large part to the new voters--students and tenants in particular. Sullivan waged a traditional campaign--pressing the flesh, ringing the doorbells--and he built up a large network of volunteers independent of the CCA. The trend is obvious down the line. Francis Duehay'55, who also ran a high-budget, high-profile campaign, finished stronger than ever before in his re-election bid, only...
...taking a "top-down" approach in general. But co-chair Harriet Barlow says the "organizing of the party is entirely open." The party will nominate the presidential candidate at a convention next March. The strategy now is to make a splash in the press with the presidential campaign in 1980, continue organizing at the local as well as national level for the next four years, and then go for broke in 1984. Organizers say their biggest immediate problem is maneuvering onto the ballot in each of the 50 states...
Even if their presidential hopes are infinitesimal, Citizens Party activists can play an important part in the campaign by focusing attention on liberal programs that might otherwise be ignored. The historic role of third parties like the Populists and the Progressives has been to influence the platforms of the major contenders. The Citizens Party can force Kennedy to earn the allegiance of liberals who he may assume are already in his pocket. It would be a worthy victory to keep Kennedy in line without throwing the election to his opponent...