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Since 71 of the names on Keverian's list are Democrats, a majority of the 130-odd member House Democratic Caucus, McGee is clearly on the defensivee in the Speakership fight. McGee, to have any chance of winning, would have to break the old tradition of nominating the Speaker within the Democratic Caucus and make a floor appeal to the tiny Republican contingent...
...policy toward the Middle East. The former Vice President thus signaled that he has no thought of accommodating the Palestinian sympathies frequently voiced by Jackson. Those opinions seem to be far from universal within the black community. Nearly all of the 21 members of the congressional black caucus, for example, have strongly pro-Israeli voting records...
...preachers of the New Right strongly emphasize social issues and a rock-ribbed antiCommunism. They are willing to challenge Reagan whenever he shows signs of drifting toward pragmatism on these issues; Howard Phillips of the Conservative Caucus has even likened Reagan to Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister who tried to appease Hitler in 1938, for Reagan's willingness to appease pragmatists on the deficit. The New Right's special targets are the preppies and pragmatists; George Bush has been the subject of some of the bitterest stories in Conservative Digest...
...candidates. A follow-up series of meetings were held to "teach them how to reach women," says Mildred Jeffrey, a longtime official of the United Auto Workers Union. In July 1983, five of the six presidential candidates traveled to San Antonio to meet the National Women's Political Caucus. It seems amazing now to remember that this was the first time that presidential candidates had made such a pilgrimage, that until then women had been considered a political sideshow...
...name: Ferraro. Congresswomen Barbara Kennelly of Connecticut, Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Mary Rose Oakar of Ohio also came out for Ferraro. Finally, on July 4, a delegation of 3 women leaders traveled to Mondale's Minnesota headquarters to make their case. The National Women's Political Caucus sent him a final compendium of arguments for a woman, and then, two days before his decision, forwarded a poll of delegates in which 75% said a woman would boost the party's chance of victory...