Word: maddoxisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standoff turned up by the survey resulted from asking those polled to choose between the two main candidates. When the Yankelovich analysts figured in the effect of the minor candidates, Lester Maddox and Eugene McCarthy, Ford pulled ahead of Carter by 42% to 40%. Maddox is a negligible factor, polling only 1% of the vote at this point. But McCarthy draws 7%, down from 12% in August but still enough to tip the election to Ford...
Center Field -- Aaagh! These guys are both great. Garry Maddox topped Cesar Geronimo in hitting--.330 to. 307--and he is almost as good as Geronimo in the field. A razor-thin advantage for Philly...
CORNELL at RUTGERS - Cornell has lost nine games in a row; if the Big Red doesn't increase that streak to ten, then Lester Maddox will surely be President. RUTGERS 33, CORNELL...
...politics of race has gone with the wind," proclaimed Georgia's Governor George Busbee in his 1975 inaugural address. But Busbee, who succeeded Carter, had reason to know that he was not entirely right: his opponent in the Democratic primary runoff, Lester Maddox, won 40% of the vote, mostly from diehard segregationists, who, though they no longer elect statewide candidates, hang on as an inhibiting political force...
...this philosophy that links him, however uneasily and tenuously, with Black Congressman Andrew Young and Mississippi Publisher Hodding Carter III on one end of the South's political spectrum, and with George Wallace and Lester Maddox on the other end. That was the point Carter was attempting to make when he said in 1970 that Maddox "has compassion for the little man," and when he said that a Humphrey-Wallace ticket in 1972 "would do well in the South," and when he called himself "basically a redneck...