Word: democratic
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Eugene McCarthy has not won an elective office since Minnesota returned him to the U.S. Senate in 1964. He has lost two campaigns for the White House as a Democrat and one as an independent. Last week the Pied Piper of the 1968 antiwar crusade announced plans to extend his losing streak: at 72, he will run again as the presidential candidate of the little-known Philadelphia-based Consumer Party, which has never won an election...
...Democrat is elected president, we could possibly be in a situation similar to the early 1960s," says Gitlin...
...long have fancied myself a big-D and a small-d democrat, yet have never quite understood the slogan "More democracy at Harvard!"--assuming it is more than an empty catchphrase. What is meant by "democracy," and why must Harvard be one? The vague calls for "democracy at Harvard" which have been strewn about my four-year sojourn here result from a reductionism that assumes because democracy may be the best way to run a country or any political unit, then, surely, everything should be run that...
...real Duke," as Republicans call their sober, taciturn Governor to distinguish him from Dukakis, is still mentioned as a possible running mate for Bush. But there is one major drawback to that scenario: if elected, Deukmejian would have to hand over the nation's largest statehouse to a Democrat...
Congressional Republicans, already stung by association with the "sleaze factor" in the Reagan Administration, find the potential for a so's-your-old-man response a small price to pay for throwing a cloud over the man who is the highest-ranking Democrat in the country and who will be banging the gavel at this summer's Democratic Convention. At midweek Vice President George Bush played this game when he turned questions about the ethics of Attorney General Edwin Meese into a call for an independent counsel to investigate Wright...