Word: nationale
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The Connally advertisement was the symbol of another element in the 1980 race: its length. The spot was one of the earliest national television advertisements ever purchased for a presidential race. But network executives have had to refuse to sell larger chunks of time to Reagan and Carter, saying that...
The troublesome early start of campaign '80 is the result of the incredible burden the candidates face in having to compete for convention delegates in 36 primaries across the nation. In 1968 there were only 17 primaries, but now the need to organize in so many places, and the...
Watergate, which ruined so many Republican reputations, added luster to his. As a member of the Senate Watergate committee, he appeared daily on television, sharply probing the President's men with courtroom techniques. Occasionally, his pronouncements lighted up the murky scene. "There are animals crashing around in the forest...
Running considerably behind Reagan and neck and neck with John Connally in the polls, Baker hopes to break away from his rivals in the primaries in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. Since surveys indicate that he arouses less hostility than either Reagan or Connally, he thinks he can emerge as a...
At week's end, Bush also demonstrated that he may be a better stump speaker than Baker. Both candidates showed up at a G.O.P. forum in Portland, Me., where Bush won so much support with a blood-stirring campaign speech that he narrowly upset Baker in a presidential straw...