Word: elected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With Roger [Caron] gone and Vigs [Mark Vignali] gone, they'll say we'll have gaping holes," the captain elect said. "But we have a lot of good young people working hard in practice who have been pushing the starters...
...country, leaving the Democratic candidate wounded and bleeding. On the Republican side, surfacing later, were half a dozen baby boomers who wrote the Republican platform to their wishes and who regarded Reagan, as one of them said, "more as a totem than a leader. We're trying to elect a man ten years past his prime...
...Jack Kemps, Trent Letts, Newt Gingrichs, Vin Webers may not make it to the top in 1988. But we'll be in control. The Bob Doles, the Howard Bakers are out-through. Unless George Bush makes it, we'll elect the first President who wasn't in uniform in World War II." The second baby boomer, liberal Democratic Congressman Charles Schumer of New York City (age 33), had done his best for Hart in the primaries and, ruefully looking back, said, "The tectonic plates of American politics are shifting. Gary Hart touched them, felt them...
...right to continue speaking in the months ahead for her party on a national level. New York Democrats take it as an article of faith that in 1986 she will run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Republican Alfonse D'Amato. "This state is dying to elect a woman Senator, and she becomes the logical candidate," says one party insider. "Her recognition factor...
...they often admire their own Representative. Norman Ornstein, a professor of government at Washington's Catholic University, notes that even in a year like this, when voters are pleased with the President, "they don't have the impulse to throw the bums out. They tend to re-elect the Government." In that sense, this year's mood of satisfaction paradoxically helped many Democratic incumbents as well as Republican legislators...