Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Warren Smith Iowa City, Iowa...
...Thompson is only the half of it. The complete Carter conspiracy, the Mein Kampf of 1976, comes clear in [MORE]'s interview with R.W. Apple Jr., The New York Times' national political correspondent. Apple filed the first "Carter is a serious candidate" story from Iowa in October 1975. Apple explains that he went to Iowa to see who was moving, who was organizing, and all his contacts from past campaigns kept saying "Carter, Carter, Carter...it was enough of a man-bites-dog story that (the Times) played it on page one." Pass the Windex, you say? Sure. All Carter...
Most informed speculation now focuses on six prospects. The group is headed by Reagan and Connally and includes Tennessee Senators Baker and Bill Brock, Iowa Governor Robert Ray and House Minority Leader John Rhodes of Arizona. All except Baker and Ray are well to the right of center. Baker is known for his role as vice chairman of the Senate Watergate committee and is an impressive campaigner. He is also acceptable to all wings of the party. Brock is highly regarded but little known. Ray is personally close to Ford, chairman of the convention platform committee-and also obscure...
...what I stand for on specific issues. Although I was in all [but one] of the primaries, I mostly restricted my efforts to just a few states. I still have never campaigned extensively in California, Massachusetts or New York. We organized only three states in depth-Iowa, Florida and New Hampshire-and did a lesser, but effective, job in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The major issue used by my primary opponents, particularly Congressman Morris Udall, was that I was fuzzy on the issues. This constant campaign statement had an impact in some of the states, though not the majority...
...labor bosses are on the outs, having supported Jackson; and the more liberal union leaderships, like those of the Auto Workers, State, County and Municipal workers, National Education Association, and the coal miners, have grown in power, having backed Carter and at least partially responsible for his victories in Iowa, Florida and Michigan...