Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part why an increasingly conservative voting public?as uncovered by TIME Soundings and other surveys?chose a more liberal Congress. With only rare exceptions, voters ignored traditional party or ideological categories. In Vermont, says former Governor Philip H. Hoff, "the ticket-splitting was just staggering." It helped elect Democrat Patrick J. Leahy to the Senate from traditionally Republican Vermont...
...Patrick Leahy, Democratic Senator-elect from Vermont...
...PATRICK LEAHY, 34, the first Democrat sent to the Senate by Vermont since the Republican Party was founded in 1854. As late as a week before the election, the polls showed Leahy trailing his Republican opponent, Congressman Richard Mallary, by as much as 13%. But the prematurely gray Leahy a state's attorney for Chittenden County, kept plugging at a theme with peculiar appeal to Vermonters: there was no place for partisanship in replacing "the strong independent vote we've had for 34 years," the vote of retiring G.O.P Senate Dean George Aiken. Leahy...
...Roman Catholic traditionalists are more widely respected, even by ideological opponents, than Journalist Dale Francis. A veteran of three decades of Catholic publishing, Francis almost singlehanded has edited the National Catholic Register (circ. 90,000) as an effective voice of Catholic conservatism since Schick Millionaire Patrick J. Frawley Jr. bought the paper in 1970. So dedicated was Francis that he took no vacation during those four years...
Wisconsin, Patrick Lucey...