Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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If he had the Democrats in mind, Reagan did not say. But he had noticed the new Democratic emphasis on home and community. He was watching television, he said, as Walter Mondale gave his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. When Mondale reached the heights of...
Those discordant strains could be heard beneath the harmony of last week's carefully scripted convention. Whether or not Reagan wins a second term in November, the race to succeed him-and the struggle for the party's soul-has already begun. Says the President's campaign...
The party has for decades been fundamentally split. The division has been partly ideological, but to an even greater extent cultural, regional and social. One branch has been dominated by a right-wing populist strand, predominantly Western, rural and Main Street, whose antecedents stretch back to the isolationists and McCarthyites...
This profound struggle for the party's soul was on display last week in Dallas. A group of young Turk conservatives led by Congressmen Jack Kemp of New York and Newt Gingrich of Georgia took control of the party platform committee and installed some of the rightists' favorite...
Widely regarded as a conservative hatchet man when he ran for Vice President on Gerald Ford's ticket in 1976, Senator Robert Dole of Kansas has become less acid and more open to compromise; he also has the ability, unique in Washington, to stand up to lobbyists seeking tax...