Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political skills, the pros wonder if he has the character to survive the long pull of presidential politics. Even casual gossip, which they would dismiss if it concerned another man, makes them edgy when it involves Kennedy. There are occasional rumors of girl chasing that disturb his fellow Democrats. About his general restlessness, one party elder muses: "There's something for psychiatry here." Another Democrat feels that Ted is "trouble-prone." Says a longtime Senate comrade: "He's got a fine future if he can keep his snoot clean...
Conflict. Some Democrats doubtless cast what politicians called "penance votes": having opted for a Republican President, they came back to their party for other offices. But most were in a selective mood; personalities and state-level disputes weighed at least as heavily as national politics. Thus in Kentucky, where voters could have voted a straight Republican ticket with the flick of a single voting-machine lever, not enough did. The result was that while Nixon was winning handily, Republican Senatorial Candidate Louie B. Nunn was losing a seat that had traditionally been Republican. Whatever patterns existed seemed in conflict with...
...Richard Nixon won close to 70% of Virginia's presidential vote, and one result was an unexpected defeat for Moderate Democrat William B. Spong Jr., 52. Spong had led Republican William L Scoff, 57, for much of the campaign. One reason: Scott, a three-term Fairfax Congressman, was presumably so inept that the Washington Post stoned him for "unimpressive service" in the House and "shallow understanding" of the Senate...
...political philosophy of North Carolina's new Republican Senator-elect, Jesse Helms, better than Barry Goldwater. "If you want to out-Goldwater Goldwater," the Arizona Senator told North Carolinians, "let him come." Helms, in his victory over three-term Congressman Nick Galifianakis for the seat now held by Democrat B. Everett Jordan, was also aided by a timely endorsement from President Nixon...
...campaign for a Georgia Senate seat eventually developed into a bare-knuckle brawl between Democrat Sam Nunn, 34, and Republican Congressman Fletcher Thompson, 47. As the campaign reached its climax, Nunn happily swung a devastating haymaker: Opponent Thompson during his six years in Congress had dropped 119 bills into the hopper, but not one had ever made it out of committee. "He's just interested in headlines," snorted Nunn. Nunn's ridicule was helped along by some Thompson gaffes. The Congressman, who pilots his own plane, at one point scheduled an airport press conference and then proceeded...