Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flynn has avoided making political capital out of Studds's censure, but "quite frankly, when you talk to people, that's the first thing that comes up," notes Flynn's campaign manager, Robert J. Glenn...
...among also-rans. votes A at a caucus candidate to must have his receive 15% support of re the corded m the statewide tabulation; backers of candidates who fall below the threshold remain can formally defect to another uncommitted. contender During he arm twisting at McKinstry Elementary, the lonesome Glenn and Cranston supporters were recruited by other groups One result was a Jackson-McGovern tie lor third place that was settled, according to official party rules, by a coin flip-heads, McGovern...
...limelight promptly shifted to New Hampshire. The candidates' debate in Manchester Thursday was friendly and inconclusive. Glenn seemed loose; Hart tight. Jackson, who after a fast start was losing ground, let some more slip away When Moderator Barbara Walters asked him about reports that in private he often referred to Jews collectively as Hymie" and New York City as "Hymie-town," Jackson nervously dodged the question. "I am not anti-Semitic," he said. "I am not inclined to ... be insulting. The charges have intensified Jewish antagonism toward Jackson, already fierce because of his manifest sympathy for the Palestine Liberation...
...night before the debate, Glenn delivered an unusually warm five-minute TV speech, a last-ditch, do-or-die appeal to New Hampshire voters that cost $10,000. Ten reruns were scheduled. Hart, desperate not to lose momentum, dumped $100,000 into television ads and cranked up his solid organization. Mondale just sat tight. His aides fretted. "New Hampshire's not our kind of state," said one, alluding to its Yankee conservatism-and orneriness. "There's a big what-the-hell vote. A candidate like Hart could single-shot...
...states to be contested that week-Wyoming, Oklahoma, Washington-is Hart in a position seriously to challenge Mondale. In several big primaries, such as in Illinois (March 20), Hart-committed candidates are running for fewer than half the state's convention seats. His hopes depend further on Glenn's and Jackson's doing well, at Mondale's expense on Super Tuesday, March 13: if Mondale sweeps the three Southern primaries that day, in Florida, Georgia and Alabama, th race is essentially over. Mondale plans to run at full tilt in every contest. "The person who skips...