Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scott had friends, however. One lent him $200,000 for a last-minute media blitz. Scott challenged Spong to say which presidential candidate he backed; Spong was damaged politically when a newsman reported having heard him tell some students that he was for Senator McGovern...
...past has supported re- peal of the federal income tax, and more recently opposed a Government rat-extermination program ("In Payette we kill our own rats"). He ran a smooth campaign against Idaho State University President William E. Davis, 43, shrewdly tying the moderate Democrat to unpopular McGovern positions. When it came out that Davis endorsed the farm workers' lettuce boycott, Mc-Clure staffers passed the word: "Will a potato boycott be next...
Democrats were most successful when they kept their distance from George McGovern. John Kerry, 29, the attractive former leader of the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War, learned that hard lesson in the Fifth District of Massachusetts. A McGovern man, he sank $250,000 into an energetic campaign and was considered well ahead; he lost to Paul Cronin, 34, when an independent who was expected to split the Republican vote withdrew...
...more respected Congressmen to be unseated was Chicago's independent-minded Democrat Abner Mikva, 46, the victim of redistricting, his own stand in favor of busing and his association with McGovern, whom he supported even before the Democratic convention. One of the earliest challengers to the organization of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Mikva had made his peace with the "boss." Mikva's Republican opponent, Sam Young, 49, a Chicago attorney active in local G.O.P. affairs, spoke out harshly against "the McGovern-Mikva brand of government," a gamble that paid off among the conservative voters along the North Shore. In winning...
VERMONT. Thomas P. Salmon, 40, started out with what looked like three strikes against him when he launched his campaign against Luther F. Hackett, 39, a tightfisted conservative protege of retiring Governor Deane C. Davis. Salmon is a Democrat, a Catholic and an admitted McGovern man. But he is also a widely respected attorney, an attractive shirtsleeves campaigner with an enthusiastic following, and a protege of former (1963-69) Governor Philip Hoff, the only other Democrat to reach the Vermont statehouse in this century. Salmon's upstream campaign began to turn into an upset when his charge that...