Word: nebraska
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite his assets, the front runner came dangerously close to blowing his lead in the final lap. After smashing Favorite Son Lloyd Bentsen in Texas on May Day, he was shocked by six setbacks over the next five weeks. He lost Nebraska, Idaho and Oregon to Church; he dropped Maryland, Nevada and Rhode Island to Brown; he just barely edged Udall in Michigan...
Although it is conceivable that Reagan could carry North Carolina and Virginia?and possibly Mississippi and Texas ?against Carter, it is by no means certain. Should he also carry California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, Indiana, South Dakota and Nebraska, in all of which he has strong but by no means unchallengeable strength, he would still be 117 electoral votes short of winning. He would be forced to make up some of that deficit in the electoral-vote-rich Northern and Midwestern industrial states, where his appeal seems weakest...
...hope and you've got life." Such was the consolation offered to 15-year-old Caril Ann Fugate 17 years ago by her grandmother just after the sobbing teen-ager was sentenced by a Nebraska court to life imprisonment. The court had found her guilty of aiding Charles Starkweather in one of the most savage and sensational crimes of the 1950s: a two-day rampage of murder and violence that trailed blood across two states and left ten dead in its wake. True to her grandma's sage prophecy, Caril last week was given her freedom...
Loaded Guns. Starkweather was the first to stand trial; he was found guilty of murder and was executed on June 25, 1959-the last person to be electrocuted by Nebraska. Throughout her trial, Caril pleaded her innocence, insisting that she was held hostage by the crazed boy and feared for her life if she tried to leave him. Charlie, however, told the jury that she was a willing participant in the killings and could have escaped a number of times when he left her alone with loaded guns. The jury apparently agreed with Starkweather...
Carter disagreed with the conclusion that the Oregon defeat, combined with previous losses in Nebraska and Maryland and his squeaker win in Michigan, meant that his campaign was stalled. But he reluctantly acknowledged a "psychological setback in momentum." The damage from the string of defeats was readily reflected in several caucus states as they continued selecting delegates. Cooled off about Carter, Missouri Democrats gave him only 28 delegates instead of the 40 that he had reckoned on. A week earlier, he ended up with only 23 pledged delegates in Virginia -17 fewer than anticipated-though at least...