Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CALIFORNIA. Gray-haired and raspy-voiced from a successful operation for throat cancer, oldtime Hoofer George Murphy, 68, is trying to dance out of the way of a strong challenge to his bid for a second Senate term by a Democrat named Tunney. If the Tunney were Gene, a contemporary, Murphy could worry less. But it is John. 36-year-old son of the former heavyweight champion, a three-term Congressman who looks, talks and acts like a somehow unaccounted-for Kennedy brother...
...Reagan country, Tunney has tried to neutralize the permissiveness tag that is automatically affixed to every liberal Democrat...
...Kennedy is 60 per cent. If he can win with this margin or better he will still have a shot at the Presidential sweepstakes in 1972. President Nixon is hoping that the Republican candidate, Si Spaulding, will run well enough (40 per cent or better) to eliminate the Massachusetts Democrat from the national limelight. But Spaulding has a problem: he cannot figure out whether to go to the left to pick up disenchanted liberals or to the right for supporters of arch right winger Col. John McCarthy who lost the primary to Spaulding. Starting out as a strong Administration critic...
Goodell's problems are not only political. He also faces a severe shortage of money while his Democratic opponent, Rep. Richard Ottinger, is a wealthy businessman who spent over $2 million in winning the Democratic primary. Ottinger is as liberal as Goodell, but as a Democrat, and a wealthy one, he can afford...
TEXAS: No matter which way this one goes, Texas will end up with another conservative Senator to complement John Tower. The upset primary victory of Lloyd Benston over liberal Democrat Sen. Ralph Yarborough was a big victory for the conservative wing of the Texas Democratic Party. Yarborough had a strongly liberal record on the war, civil rights and most other issues...