Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...election night, Martha Mitchell called Hanrahan to gush, "I'm a Republican, but you're my kind of Democrat." Not much later, Mayor Daley also phoned his congratulations. "Politics is no different than sports," the mayor philosophized. "You win 'em and you lose 'em." Having defied the machine and won, Hanrahan returns to the fold with much more power than he had before he was kicked out. Unless he is convicted on criminal charges, he seems likely to beat his Republican opponent in the general election. He is, in fact, in a strong position to succeed...
UNIQUE AS her position may seem, Shklar by no means allows herself to be cut off from American society. Although she refuses to discuss her politics in the classroom, she humorously attests to being a "standard Democrat: F.D.R. was-our-last-real-president, and all that." Over the years students have grown to marvel at her intellectual prowess and to respect her academic demands, but when it came to political actions mutual misunderstanding has resulted. Looking back of Shklar's attitude towards the strike and general unrest on campus during the past several years, a student explains that "she thought...
...Lindsay will do if he-Wallace-is nominated. Will they start third parties? Actually, a liberal walkout would not be unlikely. Kane is convinced that Wallace will run again on his American Party ticket if the convention shuns him-even if that would hurt Nixon enough to elect a Democrat. Says Kane: "Wallace doesn't care where the dust would settle if he ran as a third-party candidate. He is not interested in party fealty. He champions conservatism wherever it comes from. And these campaign forays are more than ego trips. There must be a tidy profit...
Assessing the primaries to date, Kennedy agrees that "the situation is clearly far more wide open than it was." He believes that only Muskie and Humphrey have a chance to get the nomination. He told TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey that he wants another Democrat to win and serve, while he gains experience through eight more years in the Senate. Even if the polls showed the Democratic nominee certain to lose, Kennedy would stay out, as races can turn about quickly. Humphrey, he recalled, trailed Nixon by 15 points in the polls in 1968 but finished so strongly that he nearly...
...voting for their convictions rather than of defeating the Republican candidate. Indeed, the replies to two questions in the survey show that Muskie's potential strength is greater than indicated by his meager 9% share of the Florida vote. In reply to one query, the sampling of Democratic voters named Muskie as their leading second choice for the nomination. In another response tally he emerged as the only Democrat who, if the election were held today, would defeat Nixon, albeit by a very slim margin. In sum, if Muskie interprets the lesson of Florida correctly, he might yet salvage...