Word: mocks
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George McGovern showed early foot. Hubert Humphrey rallied and faded. Ed Muskie made a late surge. A hotly contested primary? No, a hotly contested mock political convention at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., the boomingest of the quadrennial campus mass ventures into political prediction. Washington and Lee's convention also has the best record for accuracy. Since visiting Speaker William Jennings Bryan inspired their first mock convention in 1908, the student delegates have correctly predicted the presidential nominee for the out-of-power party a remarkable ten of 14 times. It has been 60 years, in fact...
This year's extravaganza got under way with a parade down Lexington's main street with bands, floats and real live jackasses. George Wallace's float, naturally, was a yellow school bus loaded with his mock delegates toting serious placards: REDNECK POWER. Another realistic touch was a token mob riding in a Jeep bearing the sign: MOCK...
RIOTS. CHAOS. The parade was followed by a keynote speech by Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter that was received, reported the Richmond Times-Dispatch, with "remarkably convincing mock boredom...
...candidates, eleven more real primaries still to go, a revised set of party rules and an expanded electorate. For months the 1,000 student delegates (out of a student enrollment of 1,600) had been conferring with Democratic leaders in all 50 states. Throughout last week's balloting, mock state chairmen sought advice by telephone from the same experts on how to vote, when to switch. After the appropriate hoopla, nominating speeches and floor demonstrations, the roll call got under way ("The great State of West Virginia, home of Jerry West, Don Knotts and Soupy Sales, casts...
...talk jockey on KVI in Seattle, has a different audience, the white middle class, and a different approach. He has taken a group up the slopes of Kilimanjaro and guided an expedition of gem hunters to the wilds of Idaho and Montana. Along the way, he has started a mock fan club of 15,000 for Seattle Pilots Shortstop Ray Oyler, who had the next to the lowest batting average in the American League one season, and he has led angry taxpayers to Olympia, the state capital, to press for tax reform...