Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying. From the beginning, it was a long shot-an accidental President swept into office on a wave of scandal, stuck with the worst recession since World War II, confronted with a charismatic opponent in a bitter primary fight and then with an all-things-to-all-people Democrat in the general election...
...political novices included a 70-year-old semanticist in California, a former astronaut in New Mexico, a rancher in Wyoming and a tax lawyer in Utah. All are conservative Republicans, and all unceremoniously ousted liberal Democratic Senators-including two three-termers-from their seats. But the Senate's only Conservative, James Buckley of New York, was swamped by a left-of-center Democrat. So were right-leaning Republicans in Maryland and Tennessee, and Nebraska elected its first Democratic Senator in four decades...
...blustery onetime bartender who lived in New York City's Hell's Kitchen, made his way to Harvard, became one of the nation's leading urbanologists, served four Presidents, and fulminated against the Arabs and the Third World as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Democrat Moynihan won over softspoken, engaging Republican-Conservative James Buckley, who leaves the Senate after one competent but unremarkable term, by a solid 54%-46% majority. That was because the suicidal tendencies of the faction-ridden state Democratic Party were largely overcome, hostility from blacks diminished, and a shortage of money (for more...
...shrewd to rely totally on Jimmy Carter's coattails, Democrat James Sasser decided to run hard against incumbent Bill Brock and win their Senate race largely on his own. The genial Sasser tormented his rich opponent for refusing to make a full disclosure of his finances, for paying only $2,000 in federal taxes on his 1975 income of $51,000, and for refusing to make his 1974 tax return public. Starting out 30 points behind in the polls, Sasser scored a stunning upset over a highly regarded conservative who had hopes for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination...
...stiff campaigner, Brock, 45, never managed to shake off his challenger, even though he spent $1 million-nearly twice as much as Sasser. The Democrat's big break came when the State Labor Council at a press conference compared Brock's extraordinarily low 1975 tax payment to that of a steel worker, a railroad engineer and an auto worker-who earn far less. Brock claimed that business expenses, charitable contributions and operating costs for a blind trust reduced his tax liability. Lapel buttons with the claim "I paid more taxes than Brock" began to sprout all over...