Word: democratics
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...report said, any policy that tries to adjust "to the fears and prejudices of a narrow class of voters in the end is bound to fail." Based on a detailed state-by-state analysis, the Ripon report argues that there is "no room to the right" of rural Southern Democratic politicians for the Republican Party to move in; that Southerners will almost always prefer a conservative Democrat to a conservative Republican; and that the real opportunity for the party lies in an appeal to "the new South," which is largely urban and increasingly liberal in its attitude toward economic...
...Senate fight against the bill was led by North Carolina's conservative Democrat Sam Ervin, whose image as the strictest constructions! of them all has moved him to combat such diverse events as civil rights legislation and the proliferation of computerized data banks. Ervin's argument that the bill was unconstitutional persuaded only two of the Southern colleagues who had followed his legal lead on so many other bills. And he was opposed by a collection of liberal Northern Senators who might ordinarily be expected to share his constitutional conviction that the bill must be defeated. Opponents were...
...Louisians take the war like everyone else. Construction workers did attack students in the streets a few weeks ago, but on a much less massive level than in the Battle of New York. Even the Globe-Democrat, great voice of Nixon Republicanism and former employer of Agnew speechwriter Patrick Buchanan, was appalled. "Polities," their editorial began, "is a game for gentlemen" and, in the great scheme of the American consensus, beating up peaceful by-standers, however long-haired, is not gentlemanly conduct. The Globe is not racist, for racism is tinged with something dirty and vile here in the heart...
Their prospects are not bright. House members have introduced 360 bills to impose quotas on imports as varied as mink, zinc, lead, electronics products, honey and strawberries. In the Senate, Indiana Democrat Vance Hartke is likely to press for mandatory quotas on foreign steel, and Western Senators probably will try to make the meat-import quotas still more restrictive. Even the most zealous supporters of free trade in Washington see little possibility of much modification in the bill...
...recent years, is now being used to oppose the war in Indochina. In a precedent-setting move, 24 U.S. Senators have bought TV time to support a congressional amendment calling for a scheduled and complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Viet Nam by June 1971. Led by South Dakota Democrat George McGovern and Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield. they have arranged for a three-week campaign on local television stations in 43 cities. Their aim: to generate public pressure for passage of the amendment when it comes up for a vote later next month. Whatever the result, the notion of using...