Word: mcgoverns
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Notable victims of the GOP on-slaught included the most venerable giants of the liberal old guard: Sens. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), George S. McGovern (D-S.D.), Frank Church (D-Idaho), and Reps. Al Ullman (D-Ore.) and John Brademas...
...only had the GOP ousted the bulk of the Senate's liberal old guard--headed by the likes of Sens. George S. McGovern (D-S.D.), Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), and Frank Church (D-Idaho)--but it had also gained a majority in the house (53-47) for the first time since...
Liberal Sens. George S. McGovern (D-S.D.) and John C. Culver '54 (D-Iowa) also lost to conservative challengers, who were backed by New Right and evangelical political action committees...
...McGovern last night attributed the wave of Republican Senate victories to "a new virulence of the new extremism." In a post-election interview, the former presidential candidate and influential member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee condemned the "scurrilous literature" used by conservative lobby groups and said the increasing role of single-issue political action committees has "poisoned the political climate...
Carter's showing was slightly better than that of the Democratic candidate George McGovern, who won only 17 electoral votes in 1972. The president was close to the electoral vote total of Adlai Stevenson in 1952 and Barry Goldwater...