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Attorney General Scott Harshbarger, Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn, former Sen. Patricia McGovern and Boston University President John Silber are all potential Democratic challengers to Weld...
...Democratic Party, it was said, had become divided against itself. The 1972 nomination of George S. McGovern demonstrated that one wing of the party--an extreme liberal wing--had wrested control of the party from the hands of those who could form a coalition and get a Democratic president back in power...
...says he was "real idealistic" in college, when he supported Sen. George S. McGovern, as Clinton did. He still considers himself a liberal but thinks Clinton won't do enough to stem the "orgy of consumerism" he thinks has led America to its economic and moral troubles...
...younger Democratic challengers have a poor record against older Republican incumbents. The last three times this match-up has occurred ended in disasters for Democrats--like Mondale's loss to Reagan in 1984, McGovern's to Nixon in 1972, and Stevenson's to Eisenhower in 1956. The last Democrat to succeed in this situation was Franklin Roosevelt '04, who beat Hoover...
...Thirty years ago, John F. Kennedy called for anew generation," McGovern said. "Today, we arecalling for a new generation, and a week fromTuesday, we are going to get a new generation. Thetorch is being passed...