Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through the two chambers of the Congress can be an arduous and often impossible task, even when the President's party controls both. That was a lesson John Kennedy learned. In the years to come, Nixon may well wish he had traded a few points of his victory margin for some friendly faces on the Hill...
...ailing Liberal Democrat Clinton Anderson, 77, decided to surrender after 24 years will probably fall to a conservative Republican in this election. Former Albuquerque Mayor Pete V. Domenici, 40, who ran for Governor two years ago and lost, is expected to make it for higher office this time. The margin of his predicted win over Banker and Insurance Man Jack Daniels, 48, depends to a certain extent on personality. Domenici is a breathless, ebullient crowd pleaser, while strong, low-key Jack Daniels, in contrast, is a diffident public speaker who prefers to press the flesh with individual voters...
...Biden ran for the New Castle County Council (which includes Wilmington) and won by a large margin despite the fact that the district was 65% Republican. That feat won him an appointment to a commission charged with rejuvenating the Democratic state party. Biden so charmed the local politicians that they pressed him to run against Republican Governor Russell Peterson in this fall's election. Although Democratic polls showed him ahead of Peterson, Biden held out for the more difficult Senate contest...
...Pennsylvania's Congressman from the 18th District today were he not the inheritor of 57 varieties of fame and revenue. But Heinz's constituents, from suburbanites to mill workers, seem so happy with his performance that they are expected to return him to office with a stunning margin...
Angry Voter. An earlier Buchwald effort dealt with C.R.P.'s Dirty Tricks Department. One Havelock M. Honeycomb reviews a list of shady tactics, then suggests darkly that C.R.P. even hired George McGovern on the sly to make campaign blunders that would widen Nixon's victory margin. After all, says Honeycomb of McGovern, "He is short of money." Another Buchwald column dealt with Nixonian schizophrenia and featured the New Nixon (Dickey) chewing out the Old Nixon (Tricky) for the Watergate bugging, while Tricky laments: "It was the only fun I've had in four years...