Word: dyson
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...real Democrat" is defined as liberal, the returns in several key contests bear her out. In Georgia, for example, Hamilton Jordan ran on a platform of moving the party to the center but lost to Wyche Fowler, the most liberal Congressmen in the state. In New York, John Dyson had ample money and mushy moderate ideas; he lost to Mark Green, a pugnacious reformer. The clearest choice was in Pennsylvania, where Congressman Bob Edgar ran against State Auditor General Don Bailey; the claim of "real Democrat" flew like a shuttlecock. While in the House, Bailey had backed Reagan on some...
RICH AND BORING, John Dyson was the closest thing to Cuomo's man for Senate, though the governor did officially remain neutral during the primary. Dyson's claim to fame is his development of the flashy "I Love New York" campaign and a $30-million personal treasury. Lacking discernible oratorical skills, he presents no challenge to Cuomo's hold on the state's bully pulpit...
...York politics. Cuomo, along with the Democratic Party, has failed to challenge D'Amato's hold over the state. Hardly a flashy speaker, the senator has used back-room politicking to amass a $7-million war-chest, and judging from Cuomo's bungled attempt to have the party nominate Dyson, the governor doesn't squirm at having New York represented by an ardent conservative...
...most observers, however, the Green-Dyson race indicated more about New York's Democratic political scene than it did about the power of money. New York liberals not only follow primary campaigns closely but turn up at the polls in greater numbers than most other groups. This time around they certainly provided most of Green's strength. In a low turnout that attracted just 13% of New York's 3.8 million Democratic voters, Green won by 34,000 votes. Says Washington Media Consultant Carter Eskew: "One lesson is that paid media in a primary is less effective than it would...
Green's low-budget tactics face a far tougher test in the general election, when he will have to outhustle both Dyson, who is running on the Liberal Party line, and Republican Alfonse D'Amato, the popular incumbent whom Koch last week called a "superb Senator." D'Amato, who won a three-way Senate race in 1980, has raised nearly $7 million for this year's campaign...