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...individual freedom and safety and is absolutely guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the Constitution. This dedication produces a for-us-or-against-us bunker mentality that provokes unremitting opposition to any politician whose support is less than total. Early in his career, former South Dakota Senator George McGovern favored banning small handguns, but in the face of N.R.A. pressure, he ended up supporting efforts to decontrol gun purchases. Nevertheless, the gun lobby last fall threw its support, and more than $30,000, behind his successful pro-gun opponent, Republican James Abdnor. Says McGovern: "I think they're crazy...
...assassins elsewhere in the world, Americans who try to kill the famous are engaged primarily in psychodrama rather than political drama. They do not seem to care much whether their victim belongs to the left or the right. Arthur Bremer, who crippled George Wallace, thought first of killing George McGovern. Lee Harvey Oswald apparently shot at General Edwin Walker, a right-wing fanatic, before killing President Kennedy. Giuseppe Zangara, who took aim at President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 (accidentally killing the mayor of Chicago), said that he would just as soon have killed Herbert Hoover...
Caddell should know about public perception. Now one of the top people in his field, he began polltaking as a high school student in Florida. Before Caddell finished his senior year at Harvard, he joined George McGovern's campaign for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination as chief pollster...
...changing political conditions once they are selected, says Sanford. "They are instructed and bound more precisely than when they were bound and driven by the bosses." And the nominees they pick are more likely to be unrepresentative of the party's mainstream, as in the case of George McGovern, or a Washington outsider, as was Jimmy Carter.* Or both: witness Ronald Reagan...
...Terry Dolan has come a long way since 1967. Armed with the most sophisticated mass-mailing system in the country--courtesy of New Right mastermind Richard Vigueric--Dolan helped unseat several of the Senate's most powerful old-guard Democrats last year. Among the "targets" who fell were George McGovern of South Dakota, Birch Bayh of Indiana, and Frank Church of Idaho. Now, Dolan plans to expand his attack--launching his leaflets at several members of the GOP up for re-election in 1982, including Sens. John Chafee (R-R.I.), Robert Stafford (R-Vt.), and Weicker, whom he will...