Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senator John Glenn, who could never convert his once formidable standing in public opinion polls into a commensurate number of primary and caucus votes, gave up his campaign on Friday. In debt $2 million and unable to win anywhere, even in the South, where he had staked his last hopes on appealing to a "sensible center," the former astronaut had no choice. He declined to endorse anyone, and said, "I don't aspire to be Vice President"-but added, "If I thought it was really important to the party and the country, I'd have to consider...
...Glenn Johannesen, Western Michigan...
...South was not just fun and games. The candidates tended to their big-picture strategies too. For Glenn, said his aide Boyd Campbell, Alabama was "the goal-line stand, the whole ball of wax." Mondale predicted he would win unionized Alabama (214,000 AFL-CIO members), where the Mondale family has campaigned in 63 of 67 counties, and was also hoping to finish first in Georgia. In the South, Hart might be satisfied to win only Florida. Jesse Jackson's biggest test had arrived: if he does not do well in Southern states where blacks constitute...
Whatever the results, Jackson and Glenn seemed peripheral to the central issue between Hart and Mondale: the character of American liberalism and, even more clearly, the generational claims on the Democratic Party. "This is not just a 5 horse race," Mondale told an attentive audience in Tampa. "This "has become a battle for the soul of the party and for the future of this country." For Hart and other neoliberals, standard-issue Great Society policy should be replaced when it does not work and reshaped when it lacks political support...
...past instead of leading us to the future." For others in the Hart constituency, merely finding a refuge from political monotony is sufficient reason for joining. "Nobody else impresses me at all," says Gordon Gardner, a copy editor from Savannah, Ga. "Mondale bores me to tears and Glenn is even more boring...