Word: gop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liberal Democratic leaders, including Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) and Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.)--who head the Senate Intelligence, Foreign Relations and Appropriations committees, respectively--all fell to GOP challengers...
Union members, midwestern and Eastern voters, urban residents and even voters from Carter's own South switched in large numbers to the GOP challenger, making Carter the first Democratic incumbent to be defeated for reelection in more than 100 years...
Because the new Congess elected Tuesday would preside over a possible deadlock, analysts say a Carter-Mondale victory would not be guaranteed. Democrats now control both houses, but their rivals expect to gain ground on November 4. Even if the Democrats retain their majorities--as they probably will--the GOP could gain enough key House seats to deny them the 26 Democratic delegations Carter would need for a clear victory. All eyes would then shift to the other side of the Capitol, where regardless of a likely Republican net gain the Democrats will remain in power, and Mondale would have...
...Hall said with a laugh. Hall added that as a local candidate, he is forced to be his own campaign manager, press secretary, finance chairman and advance man. "As a Republican officeholder in Democratic Massachusetts, I'm something of a star," he said. The jovial exMarine believes the Massachusetts GOP "thinks I'm a machine. Whenever they want to run any candidates in my district, they say, 'Go see Hall. He controls northern Worcester Country.' Hell, they don't know that all I've got is eight high school kids handing out leaflets...
Unlike the Democrats, the Republicans had no major scars to heal after the primary battles ended. Most of Ronald Reagan's former rivals are now actively and wholeheartedly supporting him as they have since last spring, when GOP unity love-ins were in vogue...