Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...During a combative appearance before the house last week, Mecham insisted he was innocent of any improprieties and complained that his family was being "pilloried, chastised and vilified." While the senate decides whether to remove Mecham permanently from office, Secretary of State Rose Mofford, a Democrat, will serve as acting Governor. So far, Mecham has insisted that resignation is out of the question. But even if he survives his legal challenges, he must still contend with the voters...
...final days before this week's Iowa caucuses, Massachusetts Democrat Michael Dukakis wanted to make a televised, in-depth appeal to the state's elderly voters. Since the message could not be targeted through the national networks, and there was no statewide network, the candidate simply assembled his own custom-made grid of stations. The Dukakis team bought time on local cable channels, rented a broadcast-size dish antenna and made arrangements to use a communications satellite orbiting 22,300 miles over the equator. The patchwork network enabled the candidate to conduct a live call-in show in which...
...Iowa result that deserves the most attention come November is the strong showing of the other Reverend-turned-candidate. Robertson's second-place finish discloses the Republicans' Achilles heel. Should Robertson continue to pick up delegates and turn off moderates, it will not matter which Democrat opposes the Republicans in November. Even godless Gary Hart, with 0 percent of the Iowa vote, would have a shot...
...Senate prerogatives. The Administration has claimed that the classified negotiating record of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty permits it to reinterpret the limits that were ratified by the Senate on testing space weapons. To prevent a similar dispute in the future, Democrat Joseph Biden of Delaware had Shultz present a detailed history of the INF negotiations...
...poll commissioned by WEEIAM, WCVB-TV and The Boston Globe had error margins of plus or minus 9 percent regarding the Democrats and Republicans most likely to attend the caucuses and of plus or minus 5 percent for the overall Democrat and Republicans samples...