Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dole's family seems to be an adjunct to his driving ambition. He left his first wife one day without any explanation. His second marriage, to Elizabeth Hanford, a Democrat turned Republican from North Carolina who was serving as a member of the Federal Trade Commission, seems more like a merger. He is curiously distant from his only child Robin, a daughter from his first marriage; when he arrives at a podium, he will give his wife a kiss and his daughter a handshake. Dole and his second wife, who have no children, live in his former bachelor apartment...
...document "does not fully reflect my priorities," the President said, "I am adhering to the bipartisan budget agreement and keeping my part of the bargain. I ask Congress to do the same." The lawmakers seemed ready to cooperate. "I think it's a good-faith budget," said Florida Democrat Lawton Chiles, who chairs the Senate Budget Committee. "It looks like it meets the summit agreements...
...Democrat trying to shuck that liberal image is Al Gore of Tennessee, who seeks a broad coalition in the political center. A fellow Senator, Paul Simon, argues that despite his record as an old-fashioned liberal, he has always attracted Republican votes in his home state of Illinois. TIME's poll had bad news for both. Among all registered voters, they scored close to the top of the "would not vote for" category, with 65% each. Republicans found them even less attractive (73% saying no to Gore, 71% to Simon), and registered Democrats gave them an identical vote of least...
...Democrats who have gained most are Michael Dukakis and Richard Gephardt, propelled by respective victories in New Hampshire and Iowa. Dukakis, fourth among likely Democratic voters in last month's TIME poll, reached the top of the list for the first time in a national survey. Gephardt rose from sixth place to third. Both fared relatively well on electability measurements. But before any Democrat starts humming Hail to the Chief, he should take note of the indecisiveness afflicting Democratic voters. Only one- third of them say they are certain about their present preferences. More than half say they are "only...
...fellow this spring, she says she will continue to raise money for the election. "After the convention, I will do whatever the candidate wants me to," she says. "Travelling, raising money, giving speeches, anything. Licking stamps, anything they want me to do I will do to elect a Democrat...