Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote? Mrs. Lowrey, a registered Democrat, voted the straight party line. Although she has split her ticket in the past, the demands of her newly acquired celebrity status left her no time to "study the issues." Explained Mrs. Lowrey: "When in doubt, stick to your party...
...were behind 60 to 40, in Connecticut by ten points. Prouty was six points behind. Goodell was down the tube." Nixon himself helped to replace New York's Goodell with Conservative James Buckley, and he was pleased with the play he called. He saw victory shaping up for Democrat Richard Ottinger. He sent Quarterback Agnew into the game with new instructions, pulling liberal sympathy votes back to Goodell and leaving the way clear for Buckley's end run. It worked...
Leading the page was the news that Brother James had won; a picture of the new Senator Buckley beside Nelson Rockefeller asserted that Rocky "glided in on Buckley's coattails." Senator Edward Kennedy and Senator Edmund Muskie were defeated, and victory conferred on but one Democrat-Boston's hardhat champion, Mrs. Louise Day Hicks...
Simplistic Solutions. Agnew's blunderbuss assaults on "radical liberals" have infuriated thoughtful moderates. New York's Mayor John Lindsay, who split with his party to back Democrat Arthur Goldberg against Nelson Rockefeller, observed last week that the 1970 campaign "has spread a cloud of suspicion and mistrust over our whole nation." He added: "Men with great power and high office make headlines that stir fears rather than rally hopes. They have charged that opposition to their policies somehow is an incitement to unrest and violence. That charge is incredible...
...Agnew's principal candidates for political oblivion is New York's Charles Goodell, an outspoken critic of the Viet Nam War. Last week, after finding himself trailing both Conservative James Buckley and Democrat Richard Ottinger in the New York Daily News straw poll, Goodell preempted Lassie to announce that he would stay in the race despite his poor showing and the Administration's refusal to endorse him. Sometimes, he said, a Senator "has to fight the tide-when the tide, in his opinion, is running wrong, when the frustrations of our people accumulate to lead them...