Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...George McGovern cherishes the hope of once again carrying Massachusetts, the only state he took from Richard Nixon when he was the Democratic nominee in 1972. So, after a fifth-place, 5.2% finish in New Hampshire, he decided to stay in the race through the Bay State primary on Super Tuesday. If he does not finish at least second there, he says, he will quit; even a victory would not make him a serious threat to win the nomination. His presence could be a problem for Hart and Mondale in what has become a vital state for both, less because...
That is pretty much what McGovern did in 1972 (in a campaign that Hart managed) and Jimmy Carter in 1976. Despite the way the system is now stacked, says Hart, "I don't have to win the nomination in March." It will suffice, he thinks, to pick off the majority of a delegation here and there?his first target was the Maine caucuses held on Sunday, with 27 delegates at stake?and win a fair share of delegates in states that Mondale might carry, such as Florida and Illinois. That way he could keep Mondale from building an insuperable lead...
...McGovern gets sentimental support. Governor Dukakis endorses Mondale; Senator Tsongas backs Glenn...
...knows it. He casts himself as the political avatar for younger Americans, yet he was born a decade before the baby boom, and turned 30 in the 1960s, just when people over 30 were not to be trusted. The presidential candidate whose campaign he managed in 1972, George McGovern, ran against the Democratic Establishment from the hard left; now Hart is running against the party Establishment, not exactly from the right or the left, but from off center...
...Caddell, joining Hart is a homecoming. When Hart was managing George McGovern's campaign in 1972, he asked Caddell, then a precocious Harvard senior majoring in government, to do the candidate's polling...