Word: mathiases
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No, it is not. The trouble is that presidential candidates are selected (or self-selected) from a very small pool. With rare exceptions, they are professional politicians who have served as a U.S. Senator or Governor, preferably of a large state. Since some of these are too old (65 is...
With only 21% of the voters identifying themselves as Republicans in the Gallup poll, Mac Mathias is concerned that the G.O.P. may so narrow its base as to "sign its own death warrant." He sees himself as a "centrist" able to appeal to independents and middle-of-the-road voters...
In heavily Democratic Maryland, Mathias, 53, has won four terms to the House and two to the Senate by garnering votes from independents and moderates of both parties. But he is relatively unknown nationally. Before he decides whether to run, he plans to travel "to find out who the independents...
Affable, witty and widely respected in Congress, Mathias was first elected to the House in 1960. He and F. Bradford Morse, then a Massachusetts Congressman, founded the Wednesday Club - Republican moderates in the House - in 1963. A group meeting regularly to exchange ideas, the club often antagonized the party leadership...
Public Jobs. Elected to the Senate in 1968, he helped to organize a similar Wednesday Club in that chamber. As early as 1969, he sent a prophetic message on behalf of Republican moderates to President Nixon, who had been ignoring them. Mathias warned, "You don't need us now...