Word: democratic
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...Recalls Albert Sr.: "I knocked a hole in the roof with a Comanche yell." Pauline explains, "I think my son had to establish that it would be his campaign and that he'd be doing it in his own way." Jane Eskind, an admiring fellow Tennessee Democrat, observes, "Albert Sr. sees in Al Jr. the fulfillment of his own dreams...
...living room there is a framed cover of Memphis magazine with his photograph and the headline BORN TO RUN. A number of Gore's Senate colleagues have had trouble disguising their annoyance, perhaps tinged with jealousy. "That young know- it-all takes some gettin' used to," rasped South Carolina Democrat Ernest Hollings to another Senator. "He hasn't paid his dues...
...important Southern Democrat who remained undecided last week was Alabama's Howell Heflin, a member of the Judiciary Committee. During the hearings, Heflin seemed to be leaning toward Bork. But in the wake of Southern poll results and the anti-Bork stands of some of his colleagues, the Senator appeared to be wavering. Emerging from a meeting with the President, Heflin tried to explain his ambivalence regarding the judge. "He could be an evolving individual with a great intellectual curiosity to experience the unusual, the unknown, the strange," said Heflin. "On the other hand, he may be a reactionary weirdo...
...White House hoped that Heflin could help the President save face on the Judiciary Committee. But with Specter going against Bork and undecided Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini expected to follow suit, even a pro-Bork vote by Heflin at this stage would probably mean nothing more than an 8-to-6 defeat for the nominee rather than a 9-to-5 loss...
This latest controversy can only reinforce the impression that Will Rogers articulated decades ago when he announced that he didn't belong to an organized political party: he was a Democrat. A good bit of the population has something like that impression as well, to judge from an exceptionally broad and detailed poll conducted by Gallup for the Los Angeles Times Mirror Co. and published last week. On the whole, the 4,200 people polled were markedly favorable toward the party; 54% identified themselves as Democrats or leaning that way, vs. 46% Republicans or G.O.P. leaners...