Word: harrises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vice-presidential bids were more common. As early as 1924, the Democratic Convention considered, and rejected, South Carolina Committeewoman Lena Springs. The last strong bid was by Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold of Texas, who won 404 Democratic delegate votes in 1972 but was beaten by Thomas Eagleton. The small parties that...
The candidate who might best expand Mondale's base is Gary Hart. In a Harris poll released last week, the Colorado Senator performed 10 points better than Mondale in head-to-head competition against Reagan, losing by a mere 46% to 51%; Mondale trailed the President 41% to 56...
(4 of 10) times, but not until years later did Erma think of her mother's tough-minded energy as wise or heroic. What she felt at the time was a daily desertion. When her mother married a moving-van operator, Albert ("Tom") Harris, two years later, Erma gave...
As everyone who has made the mad leap into parenthood knows, it is not the first child but the second whose arrival skews life into a grotesque caricature of its former civility. When Bombeck was several months pregnant with Andrew, the family moved to a tract development a few miles...
Actually, Humphrey's choice for No. 2, Senator Edmund Muskie, did help the ticket in one way: he delivered his home state of Maine to the Democrats for only the third time in this century. Traditionally, the ability to serve up his own state has been the minimal campaign...