Word: conventionalized
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Nixon will need acute political judgment to sense the strength of the conservative resurgence. It is conceivable that the Administration’s loss of national popularity, coupled with out-spoken campaign tactics by its Republican critics, will throw the balance of power to the Old Guard at the 1960...
Another factor impels Nixon to take on a heavy load of campaign duties. As Vice-President, he has no direct control or influence over state party organizations. Such control is very important in any national political convention, as Senator Knowland, currently the strongest threat to Nixon’s presidential...
Faulks is a graceful writer with a bracing cold streak and a sharp eye for period detail (Bond's girl of the moment drives a white Sunbeam Alpine). But by now, Bond is so bound by convention--there must be exotic settings (Paris, Persia, Russia) and vehicles (the unstoppable Ekranoplan...
"An Immensely Difficult Time ..." The stiffest challenge McCain's team faces is the nation's surly mood, which, if surveys are right, is only turning darker. From the giddy confines of the McCain campaign plane in late April, it was easy to imagine the Democratic Party bickering all the way...
On a separate Obama campaign conference call an hour later, one reporter asked David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager, why Obama shouldn't be magnanimous, since he can afford to allow both delegations to be seated and still win the nomination, given his large lead in delegates -including superdelegates, those...