Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into the Northeast could be helpful, Reagan had to nail down his own strength in the South. In a visit to Jackson, Miss., he and Schweiker reassured 13 restless Alabama delegates, who stayed with the ticket. But the two were much less successful in trying to convince the vital Mississippi delegation that Schweiker had shed his liberal horns and that no basic ideological split remained between the two running mates...
Since Reconstruction, the Republican Party has not amounted to much in Mississippi. It helped Barry Goldwater carry the state in 1964 and Richard Nixon in 1972, and today it has two Congressmen out of five. But it has only two state senators out of 52 and three state representatives out of 122. Jests Mississippi House Member Jerry Gilbreath: "We have a minority leader, a party whip and one whippee...
Thus the 60-member Mississippi delegation to the Republican National Convention has been both dismayed and delighted by its potentially pivotal role in selecting the party's presidential nominee. It has also been confused. After Ronald Reagan named the liberal Senator Richard Schweiker as his choice for a running mate, Delegate Malcolm Mabry changed his mind twice in 48 hours. He finally settled on Reagan-right where he had begun...
...pressures being applied by the insurgents, who generally back Ford. Three weeks ago, Reed was angered by what he termed Carmichael's "lies" in claiming that Ford then had 30 votes and Reagan would accept second place on a Ford ticket. Repeated soundings by TIME correspondents showed that Mississippi had been leaning toward Reagan, but his choice of Schweiker pushed the delegation into a truly uncertain category...
...running-mate. Analysts were quick to label it a disaster, and the Times keeps on inserting this idiotic quip into all its stories about how Reagan attempts to show himself as less conservative than he is portrayed when in front of the Pennsylvania delegation and Schweiker tries to convince Mississippi delegates that he's less liberal than they think...