Word: democratics
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PATRICK LEAHY, 34, the first Democrat sent to the Senate by Vermont since the Republican Party was founded in 1854. As late as a week before the election, the polls showed Leahy trailing his Republican opponent, Congressman Richard Mallary, by as much as 13%. But the prematurely gray Leahy a state's attorney for Chittenden County, kept plugging at a theme with peculiar appeal to Vermonters: there was no place for partisanship in replacing "the strong independent vote we've had for 34 years," the vote of retiring G.O.P Senate Dean George Aiken. Leahy...
PAUL TSONGAS. A slight man of Greek descent, Tsongas, 33, is a former Peace Corpsman and Robert Kennedy supporter who became the first Democrat in 90 years to win in a district that includes historic Lexington and Concord near Boston. He is a Yale Law School graduate whose campaign against Republican Incumbent Paul Cronin largely turned into arguments over disclosing income tax returns, personal credibility and political tactics. The campaign became a personality contest in which Tsongas' quiet confidence and unassuming manner were more effective. He had a succinct explanation for his success: "The people wanted a Democrat...
...This was the year of the breakthrough for women," declared Frances T. ("Sissy") Farenthold, chairman of the National Women's Political Caucus. In addition to the Democratic triumph of Governor-elect Ella Grasso of Connecticut, Democrat Janet Gray Hayes, 47, of San Jose, Calif., became the first woman mayor of a U.S. city of more than 500,000, and Democrat Susie Sharp, 67, of North Carolina, the first woman chief justice of a state supreme court. For the first time, New York chose a woman, Democrat Mary Anne Krupsak, 42, as Lieutenant Governor, and Californians elected Democrat March Fong...
...growth in the number of women candidates is the quality of their credentials. Of the six new women members of the U.S. House, for example, only one, Marilyn Lloyd, 44, of Tennessee, is a widow who was chosen to replace her husband on the ticket. The other five: Democrat Helen Stevenson Meyner, 46, wife of former New Jersey Governor Robert Meyner, who has been politically active since her husband left office in 1962; Republican Millicent Fenwick, 64, who gave up her post as director of the New Jersey State Division of Consumer Affairs to run for Congress; Democrat Gladys Spellman...
...Quipped California Governor-elect Jerry Brown: "Some people think I got here because of my father. Actually, it was my mother." Brown's father, the state's popular onetime Democratic Governor, stepped to the microphone with a cheerful rejoinder: "I just want to say I had something to do with it too." Indeed he had. Political nepotism - aboveboard, unashamed and unabashed - was in fashion again. In Massachusetts, Democrat Thomas P. O'Neill III, the 30-year-old son of House Majority Leader "Tip" O'Neill, went from the state legislature (and a seat once held...