Word: gop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people smiling nowadays, odds are they're Democrats. Dese Dems are happy, of course, about snatching the Senate out from the reactionary clutches of the GOP. And well they should be. But Paul Kirk and Co. seem to have already called the caterer for another victory celebration a bit further up Pennsylvania Avenue two years hence. Much as I hate to be a party-pooper, please permit me to switch gears, mix metaphors and rain on the Democrats' victory parade...
Recent polls put Dukakis and Murphy ahead of the GOP team of George Kariotis and Nicholas M. Nikitas by 69-20 percent. As a result, most attention on the race since September's primary has focused on how well the former duo get on together, as the nominally neutral Dukakis was reported to favor primary victim and State Senator Gerard D'Amico of Worcester for lieutenant governor...
...Democratic Secretary of State Michael Connolly was leading his GOP challenger, Deborah Cochran, 43 percent to 23 percent...
...survey, conducted for The Boston Herald and WBZ-TV and released yesterday, found Gov. Michael S. Dukakis leading his GOP rival, George Kariotis, by 67 percent to 21 percent...
Still, the idea of the meeting was intriguing to Ronald Reagan. Mid-term elections are coming up and the Republican Party's prospects for maintaining control of the Senate are not commensurate with Reagan's personal popularity. The GOP has already tried to buy off the nation's farmers with a new $50 billion boondoggle. Now the Administration wants to shore up the President's and the party's image as arms controllers...