Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Down it doubtless will go as Kennedy is forced to take more specific stands on issues about which he so far has been vague. Says New York Democrat Howard Samuels, a Carter supporter: "So far, Kennedy has been getting a free ride. He is carrying on his shoulders the uncompleted agendas of a collection of specific interest groups?blacks, the young, the poor, the working class. He can't satisfy them...
...times look unbeatable, then be beaten. After New England come primaries in which Carter now appears to be invincible: Florida, Alabama and Georgia. In these states, as in most of the old Confederacy, Kennedy is about as popular as cold grits. Says Richard Dick, a high Virginia Democrat: "Kennedy's coattails in this state would work like a noose, strangling our candidates." The first real showdown may come when both candidates face off outside their home regions, in Illinois on March 18. The challenger got a significant lift for that battle last week when Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, previously...
Ronald Reagan came to town with his friends last night. One-time Democrat Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin drew a capacity crowd to the former California governor's fundraiser at the Music Hall...
...That there Baker's a real high-class boy. I just wish he was a Democrat," Tarbue Lewis, a district manager for the Democratic state party headquarters in Nashville said. The Democrats have good reason for wanting Baker on their side. The last senate election saw him defeat the first female contender by more than 200,000 votes...
Mackey's Somerville upbringing leaves no doubt as to his political affiliation. "If you grow up in Somerville, you're a Democrat," he says, adding that no more than 6 percent of the voters in his ward are Republican...