Word: maheli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past wars, says that fantasies about brokered conventions or late-starting saviors are merely that, fantasies. Yet a few contrarians, surveying the fractured and vulnerable fields shaping up in both parties, believe a 1988 nomination may yet go to a heavyweight unsullied by the early combat. Says Eddie Mahe, a Republican consultant: "The rules and dynamics we think we understand from the last few elections don't necessarily apply...
...Mahe says the contest in either party could be wide open even after March 8 -- the mega-Tuesday that has at least 16 primaries and caucuses -- if no one has captured 40% of the delegates chosen up to that point. "Everyone in the race will be out of money," Mahe predicts, "fatigued, with fatigued staffs, fatigued messages." So there could be an opening for a classy contender -- Howard Baker or (if Bush collapses) James Baker on the Republican side, Cuomo or someone like New Jersey's Senator Bill Bradley on the Democratic side -- to ride in from the sidelines...
...year is a long time and anyone who makes predictions right now has a brain full of sawdust, but expect a net gain in 1982, in which we will pick up control of the House." Edward Mahe, a former director of the Republican National Committee (RNC) told 15 students over supper at Leverett House as part of the Fellows' Roundtable discussion series...
Cleta Deatherage, Eddie Mahe and William C. Velasquez are Fellows at the Institute of Politics this semester...
...Mahe, who will lead a seminar on political parties in the 1980s, noted that the two-party system is in great danger but added that at least some old fashioned partisanship remains. "I acknowledge the need for Democrats, I just don't want them around me," he said, eyeing his fellow speakers suspiciously...