Word: gop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They know what's good for them in terms of party politics too. At the appropriate time, both Helms and Thurmond turned from Democrats to Republicans, and although it may come back to haunt Helms (the GOP is on the decline in North Carolina), the metamorphosis has served both well...
...challenger to the more liberal Brooke has declared he will win in a close race, and observers generally agree the contest should be tight. The GOP primary is expected to draw a heavy voter turnout which many feel will benefit Brooke...
Carmichael had seen the need for a responsive two-party system in the state and had tilted with the "country club" establishment of the GOP. He had run against Big Jim Eastland for the Senate in 1972, a courageous undertaking if one considers that he did it without Nixon's support and that Eastland was one of the most powerfully established political figures in the state. In the 1975 race, Carmichael outlined rational and workable plans for improving the state. While he was doing this and Winter was voluntarily disclosing income tax returns, Finch was bagging groceries, refusing open press...
...House Version. The GOP program is the product of Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, a presidential aspirant who felt that the Republicans had to do more than naysay Carter's program. House Minority Leader John Rhodes would have none of that strategy, so there will be no House version of the plan. Says Rhodes: "Since when did the minority have to be positive?" Nonetheless, the G.O.P. now has a plan of sorts, and it will give Baker and his colleagues something to talk about now -and three years from now, if Jimmy Carter's energy plan does...
Even with its recent setbacks--the impeachment proceedings, a high unemployment rate, a divisive and a hotly contested nomination struggle--the GOP was able to garner nearly half of the vote...