Word: contendere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richard Scammon, who may have studied more elections than any other political student in Washington, issued one of his warnings about the New Hampshire primary and favored Contender Walter Mondale, who had triumphed so dramatically in Iowa the week before. But most of us did not hear what Scammon said...
"Anyone but Reagan" has been the Democratic rallying cry this year and, no doubt, when the general election takes place in November, most Democrats will ink in that anybody. But tomorrow's election is a Democratic primary--a time for Democratic voters to signal not only which candidate they prefer...
Hart Supporter Brian Quirk, 22, was elected caucus chairman by 86 of his Democratic neighbors gathered in the auditorium of Waterloo's red brick McKinstry Elementary School. When they arranged themselves into clusters according to candidate preference, 33 were for Mondale, 17 for Hart, eleven (five whites, six blacks...
Especially considering that the Big Red knocked off Harvard, 62-60, in Ithaca, N.Y. earlier this year, and enters tonight as viable a contender for the Crimson.
But how had Chernenko staged his political comeback? According to speculation at the time of Andropov's election, Chernenko had been passed over because of his close ties to the Brezhnev bureaucracy. According to this theory, the party apparatus, and hence Chernenko, had lost out when Defense Minister Ustinov tipped...