Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Johanneson Mark Andrews Arthur Link Allen Olson Ohio 25 John Glenn James Betts Oklahoma 8 Andy Coats Don Nickles Oregon 6 Ted Kulongoski Bob Packwood Pennsylvania 27 Pete Flaherty Arlen Specter Rhode Island 4 Joseph Garrahy Vincent Cianci South Carolina 8 Emest Hollings Marshall Mays South Dakota 4 George McGovern James Abdnor Tennessee 10 Texas 26 Utah 4 Daniel Berman Jake Gam Scott Matheson Bob Wright Vermont 3 Patrick Leahy Stewart Ledbetter Jerome Diamond Richard Snelling Virginia 12 Washington 9 Warren Magnuson Slade Gorton James McDermott John Spellman West Virginia 6 Jay Rockefeller Arch A. Moore Wisconsin 11 Gaylord Nelson...
...contributions, most from out-of-state conservatives and oil companies. And what should have been a big boost from the visit of Gerald R. Ford turned into a big disaster when the former president recommended publicly that the opponents stage a debate--unaware that Abdnor had already refused a McGovern challenge...
...country, the winds that fill Ronald Reagan's spreading sails as he seeks the presidency; these are the same winds that blew across America's prairies this winter, spring and summer. The gale force conservative bluster was supposed to blow away liberal senators Frank Church of Idaho, George McGovern of South Dakota, John Culver of Iowa and Birch Bayh of Indiana like so many mobile homes in the path of a tornado. But now it seems that the eye of the storm might, just might, have passed and that the winds of the hurricane have turned back upon themselves...
...floor manager for the Panama Canal "giveaway." They stuck a pin in Indiana, where they said Birch Bayh had voted consistently to cut national defense. Iowa's John Culver made it to the list, for his fellow Iowa liberal, Dick Clark, has proven vulnerable in 1978. And George McGovern, it almost went without saying, got a pin too, if for no better reason than the memory of his radlib run for the White House...
...South Dakota, for instance, where McGovern is making his fifth and, he promises, his last, run for the Senate, "Target McGovern" and other groups began as early as two years ago to disseminate literature and recruit volunteers, all in an attempt to soften up the progressives for Republican challenger Jim Abdnor. Abdnor pressed the attack on pocketbook issues, letting his less chivalrous allies address issues like abortion. But their efforts began to backfire--one pamphlet accused the father of five of being a baby killer, enough to convince many South Dakotans that their senior Senator truly was the victim...