Word: cannoneering
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...Cannon, the author of a recent biography of President Reagan, told a Kennedy School, of Government audience last night that in order to understand Reagan's attitudes toward tax cuts and other policies, he needed to learn more about his boyhood, not his political career...
...Cannon, a White House correspondent for The Washington Post, said that in the President's formative years most people saw America as a "secure and perfect" country. "For Reagan the glass was always half-full," said Cannon before about 50 spectators...
...G.O.P.'s House losses were counterbalanced by its ability to keep its 54-to-46 Senate T majority intact. Only two incumbents lost: Democrat Howard Cannon of Nevada and Republican Harrison Schmitt of New Mexico...
Incumbency proved to be the most decisive factor. Only two veterans, Democrat Howard Cannon of Nevada and Republican Harrison Schmitt of New Mexico, lost their races; on Election Day in 1980 ten Senators were beaten, and seven were defeated in 1978. Yet, examined more closely, the overall numbers do not give much solace to the Republicans. Of the 19 Democratic incumbents, 13 won with 60% or better, while four others attracted between 57% and 59% of the vote. But only one of the eleven G.O.P. incumbents, John Heinz of Pennsylvania, drew 60%. Indeed, four moderate Republicans, Lowell Weicker of Connecticut...
...Massachusetts. Political realities eventually shrank the list to five, but NCPAC still raised $10 million and spent $4.5 million in the 1982 elections. Yet last week, for all its thunder, the New Right could claim partial credit only for the defeat of a single, vulnerable incumbent, Democrat Howard Cannon of Nevada...