Word: goldwaterism
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Most U.S. opinion polls had indicated that many voters would abstain not because they did not care but because they were disillusioned about government corruption and disappointed with the candidates. "I'm not apathetic about nonvoting," said Los Angeles Attorney Richard Deyo, 36, who had served as a volunteer...
ARIZONA. Dennis DeConcini (D) v. Sam Steiger (R): a labor-backed Democrat winning on Barry Goldwater's turf? Could happen.
Fallows' jump into the Carter camp is hardly his most dramatic political change-of-heart. He came to Harvard the product of a conservative, pro-Goldwater California town 70 miles east of Los Angeles, with the requisite chunk of Ayn Rand reading under his belt. "As (politically) juvenile as everybody...
Resplendent in a purple, lace-cuffed outfit, tricornered hat and horn-rims, he looked like a happy straggler from a Bicentennial parade. But no, that was Arizona Senator Barry M. Goldwater, 67, manning the battlements on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay last week. Called back to active duty to help...
Though his crowds were generally large and friendly, they displayed little of the frenzied excitement that certifies they will turn out at the polls. The main lingering residue of the ill-advised Playboy interview was ridicule, perpetuated in a bumper-sticker revision of Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign theme...