Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YORK. "I'm a Senator first and a campaigner second," cried New York Republican Charles Goodell last week. The political consensus is that by next January, Goodell will be neither. Boxed in by liberal Democrat Richard Ottinger and Conservative Party Candidate James Buckley, Goodell is running third. His seat is one of four that the Republicans are in grave danger of losing, and the Republicans are doing all possible to ensure the loss. Spiro Agnew has proclaimed Goodell a radic-lib, a category otherwise reserved for liberal Democrats. He compared Goodell's ideological turnabout to a celebrated sex-change operation...
CALIFORNIA: Former song and dance man George Murphy is running neck and neck with a young and vigorous liberal Democrat, Rep. John V. Tunney. It is impossible to predict anything, much less a political election, in the land of Reagans and Mansons, yet Tunney must be given the edge. He is running a strong campaign against the 68-year-old Murphy, whose campaigning is hampered by his voice problem (he has had several major operations on his throat and is only barely audible...
DELAWARE: Here is a clear liberal vs. conservative race. The conservative, Republican Rep. William V. Roth, is the front runner. Opposing him for the seat being relinquished by retiring Republican Senator John J. Williams is Democrat Jacob W. Zimmerman. Zimmerman is a strong opponent of the war and favors limiting the war-making powers of the President. In a state which is owned lock, stock and barrel by the Duponts and which has a sizeable group of Wallace supporters, Zimmerman is clearly the underdog...
ILLINOIS: Ever since his reconciliation last summer with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Democrat Adlai Stevenson III has been the favorite to win the seat held for 20 years by Everett Dirksen. His opponent, Republican Senator Ralph T. Smith, was appointed to fill the remainder of Dirksen's term and is still relatively unknown in the state. He is an employer of the Agnew style and has attacked Stevenson as a radical-liberal...
...keynote came from a Texas Democrat, former speaker of the Texas House Waggoner Carr; he was appropriate for the kickoff-about a hundred Texan Young Americans for Freedom had flown in on a chartered plane. Mr. Carr thanked the assembly for the privilege of speaking to them, introduced his wife Ernestine ("One of the prettiest girls of her age in Texas"), and in a slow, polite, instructor's voice free of most of the drawl that he must have been saving for the folks back home, he delivered quietly phrased exhortations that established one of the recurring themes...