Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrat most likely to unseat Ronald Reagan in November. At .the Democratic caucus in Cumberland, Me., for example, some 70 participants spent an hour discussing the candidates' electability. Said Geologist Frederick Bragdon: "I didn't feel the Democrats were putting forward the best candidate to defeat Ronald Reagan. After New Hampshire, I see Gary Hart as a potential candidate who can do that." For Tom Puckett, 30, of Savannah, not even his personal uncertainty about Hart's program weakens that perceived advantage. Says he: "Even though you don't really know what he stands...
...freshman Keith Webster to the lineup and throw Duke onto, the schedule and that's where it took off. After a last-minute 89-86 loss to the highly touted Blue Devils--a defeat that saw the Crimson play its finest ball of the year--the cagers took off on an 8-2 tear...
...Nixon's demise two years later rubbed some of the tarnish from McGovern's defeat, and McGovern's one-man-band campaign--he has little money and is the only candidate who refuses Secret Service protection--has buffed the sentimental glare to a shine...
Besides having to defeat the costs arghument, the polling hours bill had higher political hurdles to jump...
...difference is more subtle and more important. Hart is the best man to defeat Reagan, because he is uncluttered with the remnants of the Democratic past. One must be wary of a candidate who ends his speeches with a climatic "I am ready to be President" or "Hubert Humphrey was like a father to me." Mondale consciously huddles in the shadow of Hamphrey and, while muttering the name "Jimmy Carter" only in muted tones, advocates a Carter platform that was soundly repudiated by the American electorate in 1980. We are cynical about Mondale's call for a "return...