Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Democracy depends upon the acceptance by the minority of the majority's will, and most Americans acquiesce to election results with relative equanimity. Not so William Loeb, the ultraconservative publisher of the Manchester, N.H., Union Leader. In the state's gubernatorial election this fall, Loeb supported conservative Democrat Roger Crowley, hoping that a large voter turnout in Manchester would carry Crowley past the Republican incumbent, Walter Peterson, into the Statehouse. Crowley lost by 4,200 votes. Last week the Union Leader began publishing the names of the 15,000 Manchester voters who failed to show...
...race for the Senate, Democrat Richard Ottinger, backed primarily by his mother, spent $3,500,000; Republican Charles Goodell, who found himself cut off from some of the party's biggest contributors, invested $1,000,000. Conservative James Buckley, the first third-party Senator elected in 30 years, spent $1,500,000. Three unsuccessful contenders for the Democratic nomination increased the campaign inflation by $234,000, bringing the total spent in the Senate race to over...
...member of the House of Representatives this year. Though each candidate suspects his opponent of spending more than claimed, the campaigns for these offices came to perhaps $2 for every person in the state, $6 for each vote cast Nov. 3. Incumbent Senator Gale McGee spent $150,000 (the Democrats say) to $300,000 (the G.O.P. says) to retain his seat. His G.O.P. challenger, John S. Wold, aided by a fund-raising dinner that featured Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, put $150,000 to $250,000 into his campaign. The gubernatorial race was cheap compared with other states: Democrat John...
...sounds like a ludicrous piece of political black humor. A Southern Democrat introduces an import-restricting bill designed to help a Republican President who wants to win votes in Dixie. Egged on by organized labor, Congressmen joyfully expand the bill into a measure that will force consumers to pay higher prices for clothes, shoes and many other goods. More than 4,000 professional economists sign a letter warning that the bill not only will be grossly inflationary but will also gravely hurt the nation's position in world trade. The U.S. Secretary of State says that the measure will...
...first time within memory that a Democrat achieved an absolute majority within both the College and the whole University...