Word: coattailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Political observers said that Mondale might have benefited from a "reverse coattail effect," drawing strength from popular Democratic Senate candidate John F. Kerry. Kerry swept to a comfortable victory over Republican Raymond Shamie...
...There are no ideas out there." Washington Post editorial writer Michael Barone says. "That's gonna hurt a big Republican coattail, because large coattails come when the people have something substantative to vote...
...Governor, he should be a shoo-in to fill the seat of retiring Democratic Senator Jennings Randolph. So why is Rockefeller running so hard? Because he remembers 1972 and the last G.O.P. landslide. "I went through the McGovern year," he says of his initial, unsuccessful run for Governor. "The coattail effect this year, the potential for a Reagan victory, is something I have to factor in." Indeed, last week Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, head of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, declared the West Virginia seat one of three he believes might be taken from the Democratic column...