Word: mcgoverns
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Klein traced the historical roots of the gender gap to the end of the sixties, when women began to take themselves seriously in the public sphere. "There has been a women's vote since 1972 when a majority of the women voter's voted for McGovern, "she said...
...George McGovern offers America a choice. Although his welfare and tax proposals stand in need of further study, McGovern's position for peace and for the preservation of civil liberties is unmistakable. That some have been disappointed with elements of his campaign only underscores how high hopes ride on the quality of leadership he is thought capable of providing...
...carpetbagger from New York and Harvard. And, with two solid terms as Governor, he should be a shoo-in to fill the seat of retiring Democratic Senator Jennings Randolph. So why is Rockefeller running so hard? Because he remembers 1972 and the last G.O.P. landslide. "I went through the McGovern year," he says of his initial, unsuccessful run for Governor. "The coattail effect this year, the potential for a Reagan victory, is something I have to factor in." Indeed, last week Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, head of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, declared the West Virginia seat one of three...
Keating's best hope is to ride the coattails of the immensely popular President, who is expected to carry the district by an overwhelming margin. Yet ever since Jones was elected in 1972, a year that Richard Nixon carried the district over George McGovern with 79% of the vote, Jones has been able to persuade his constituents to split their tickets. In 1976 Gerald Ford carried the district with 62%, and in 1980 Reagan beat Jimmy Carter 2 to 1. "The nice thing about my district," Jones says, "is that it has always been fiercely independent...
...state joined the District of Columbia as the only parts of the country supporting Democrat George S. McGovern against incumbent President Richard M. Brooke, earning in the process the appelation. The People's Republic of Massachusetts." But same year also saw the reelection of the only Black Senator since Reconstruction, Edward M. Brooke, a liberal Republican who was considered one of the best politicians in the state...