Word: moynihan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late results from New York, an unexpectedly difficult contest for Carter, broke the logjam and put him near the magic number. Moynihan's comfortable victory in New York was thought to have given Carter much needed help in the race in the Empire State...
...YORK--Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Government, roared to a decisive victory in the New York Senate race yesterday, upending incumbent James L. Buckley by a margin of about 10 per cent of the total vote...
...Moynihan secured his victory by taking nearly 70 per cent of the vote in New York City and running even with Buckley in most upstate areas...
...faltering economy with campaign expenditures of over $1.5 million, much of it raised out of state. In fact, with the exception of Representative H. John Heinz III (R-Pa.), who spent about $2 million on his campaign, Buckley's expenditures have outstripped those of any other Senatorial candidate. Moynihan's campaign, on the other hand, is running in the red, and recently Moynihan staffers agreed to forego their salaries to pump more money into television advertising to counteract Buckley's saturation-level media campaign...
...Lord Buckley" and "Professor Moynihan," characterized by The New York Times as "that rambunctious child of the sidewalks of New York," have provided New Yorkers with one of the most exciting name-calling, go-for-the-jugular campaigns in years. If he wakes up Wednesday morning as the Empire State's junior Senator-elect, Moynihan would do well to remember his prescient observation in a 1969 address called "Politics As the Art of the Impossible...