Word: momentum
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...hopes of achieving the recognition necessary to make a significant run. In Iowa, his version of militarism and frugality siphoned off about 7 percent of the caucus vote. He will have to show far better in the New Hampshire primary to gain that revered political intangible--momentum. His workers admit that the biggest surprise in the Crane camp has been the ascendance of George Bush, former director of the CIA. "Bush is the new superstar on the block," says Gregory F. Cronin, Crane's Massachusetts campaign coordinator. "He has taken a bit out of the shine of our recent impact...
Olivas' professional counterparts are far less worried about reports of snowballing Kennedy momentum, and they minimize the effect of the senator's anti-Rose Garden barbs. "We have not witnessed any Kennedy charge since his speeches at Georgetown or Harvard. In fact, after the Georgetown speech, we got more volunteers just like Kennedy did, although he did get more," Flynn says...
...media's interpretation of the Maine caucus results remains a touchy topic among the Carter troops. "We're sitting back and wondering how that could be a gain for Kennedy. How does that loss give him momentum?" asked Gallagher. Flynn jokes, "If we could take a string of 'losses' like that to the convention we would be in fine shape." These oversimplified responses ignore reality: Kennedy's dramatic personal appearances have revived his campaign after the Iowa disaster, while Carter has kept a grim vigil in the Oval Office...
...that its 200,000 or so voters bestow. More than two candidates will claim victories, moral or otherwise, and at least one will call it quits. The primary, as is its wont, will mark a watershed in this campaign, separate wheat from chaff, get the ball rolling, shift the momentum, be the straw that broke the camel's back or prove the turning point. But no matter how it turns out, New Hampshire will be judged by the mythos which have surrounded this poly-sci microcosm and given it the dubious privilege of determining political fortunes...
...reporters will devote more than half the articles written in the entire Presidential campaign to this primary. They'll record the obscure and trivial and, thus, memorable moments of New Hampshire, simultaneously tearing at and reinforcing the larger-than-life mystique of the quadrennial Quest for the Holy Momentum. Like a fellow named Edward "Ned" Coll, who distinguished himself from other Democratic candidates at a televised debate two days before the 1972 primary by waving a large rubber rat at the cameras and declaring, "This represents the real problem of violence in America." Or "Laugh-In" comedian Pat Paulsen...