Word: overshadowment
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...commonly accepted-if ill-defined-name for this reversal of sentiment is, of course, "white backlash," a catchall term that accommodates every shade of reaction from out-and-out bigotry through unexpected fear to sorrowful inaction. In whatever guise, backlash now threatens not only to overshadow most other issues in many parts of the nation at the polls next month but also to negate some of the signal achievements for which the U.S. Negro has striven so hard...
...Johnson suffers from one further problem: Lyndon Johnson. "The prevailing weakness of most public men is to slop over," Humorist Artemus Ward wrote a century ago. "G. Washington never slept over." The pun aside, Ward stated a problem that has plagued the President all along, and now threatens to overshadow his truly impressive domestic record. He does slop over. He speaks-or preaches-with the accents of the Depression in an age of prosperity. His rustic reminiscences seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban electorate. At 58, Johnson is roughly midway in age between Bobby Kennedy and old Joe Kennedy...
...Boat. To challenge the President, the G.O.P. has neither a figure of sufficient national stature nor an issue that is sufficiently foolproof. "Viet Nam, inflation, high interest, violence-these are the issues of 1966," cries House Republican Leader Gerald Ford, but the fact is that local issues will probably overshadow all of them. Further, the President is taking extreme pains not to rock the boat with any overly controversial decisions before Election Day. In this situation, G.O.P. leaders privately concede that they stand scant chance of recovering the 38 House seats they lost in the '64 Donnybrook, figure they...
...House of Representatives provides a convenient scoreboard for party strength, since all its members will come up for re-election. A year ago, when it was not clear that Vietnam would overshadow all other issues, many observers thought that the Democrats could escape with minimal losses. Many of the 70-odd freshman Democrats were extraordinarily attractive candidates who seemed able to run ahead of their party in their marginal districts...
...House of Representatives provides a convenient scoreboard for party strength, since all its members will come up for re-election. A year ago, when it was not clear that Vietnam would overshadow all other issues, many observers thought that the Democrats could escape with minimal losses. Many of the 70-odd freshman Democrats were extraordinarily attractive candidates who seemed able to run ahead of their party in their marginal districts...