Word: georgian
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Thus the born-again Georgian with the ready smile had become the first Deep Southerner to reach the White House since Zachary Taylor in 1849. His rocket rise out of relative obscurity to the Oval Office heights was one of the most sensational political success stories in U.S. history. Yet he had done it in such a sometimes brilliant, often halting, and finally narrow manner as to convey no commanding mandate for his campaign promises or any demonstrated confidence in his still disquieting personality...
...Labor unions worked feverishly to turn out votes for him, and could claim that their efforts were critical in Pennsylvania, Texas and Ohio. If there was any other one group to which Carter owed a great deal, it was the blacks. Four out of five blacks voted for the Georgian, and they apparently made the difference for him in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Louisiana and Mississippi...
...elections-seemed to have passed forever from the political scene. Consisting of a strange collection"of minority bedfellows-ethnic blue-collar workers (mostly Catholic), blacks, Southern whites, Jews and campus-oriented intellectuals-it appeared unlikely to be born again under any Democratic presidential nominee, let alone a small-town Georgian. Yet on Election Day 1976, the coalition reemerged. Some parts creaked badly, some were hardly recognizable, and others seemed to be missing. But the resurrected coalition held together well enough to enable Jimmy Carter to eke out his narrow victory...
...leaders have you dealt with, Mr. President?" asks genial Joe. "One hundred and twenty-four leaders of countries around the world, Joe," replies the President. Despite reports that Carter had far less money left than Ford and would not be able to match the President's TV onslaught, the Georgian's aides had paid for their final TV and radio time weeks ago. Carter thus was to present a similar mix of regional telecasts and a national appeal. Both candidates were spending about $4 million in this effort...
Disagreement arose, the politician said, not over support for Carter but over who would operate the Massachusetts campaign. Timilty, an early support of Carter, is now running the Georgian's Pennsylvania campaign, but many of his people are active in the Massachusetts effort...