Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...locking up the nomination so soon, Carter now has the luxury of time?five months in which to ponder and articulate his policies, bring together his party, pick his people, and plan for the presidency, which the current polls show him winning. Looking to November, his aides figure that he can already reasonably count on 199 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win. They calculate this by figuring that he will carry all the Southern and Border states, plus Massachusetts, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia, which they consider to be reliably Democratic. But to meet this optimistic...
...required for nomination. In the view of Reagan strategists, he may very well sweep the 127 delegates to be chosen at state conventions in Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Washington?all in the Western heartland of Reagan country. After splitting North Dakota's 18 votes with Ford and picking up eight in Minnesota to ten for Ford (an estimate that observers believe exaggerates Reagan's strength), Reagan will try to pick up ten more in Connecticut and Delaware, 18 in Iowa, plus four each in Idaho and Texas, bringing his total to 1,066 against Ford...
Henry Jackson, at 64 one of the most powerful members of the Senate, startled his closest advisers last week when he told them privately he wanted to be Jimmy Carter's running mate, but he does not think the Georgian will pick him. For his own part. Carter has a comfortable period of several weeks to consider Jackson and the growing list of names, many of which Carter knows far too little about-and, in some cases, too much. He is sure to keep the guessing game alive as a way to hold the spotlight until the convention...
...advisers say he does not want the Californian on the ticket. He considers Reagan too far to the right to provide the proper ideological balance. But if Ford is nominated by only a skimpy margin, he faces two unappealing options: he can buck the Reagan delegates and dare to pick his own man, or he can throw open the second spot to the convention floor, which will surely regard Reagan favorably...
...little eccentric. My favorite story about him has him at a dinner party with the literary effete of London. He was wearing his cape and single earing and when everybody sat down to dinner he refused to eat the regular course. Instead he began to talk excitedly and pick at a rose in the centerpiece with his fork. Before anybody could say anything he ate the entire rose. When Hemingway wrote of going to dinner with Pound, however, he was speaking not about Pound's minor eccentricities, but of the poet's developing world view of politics and economics...