Word: populares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic Congress was so willing to buck a popular President with a powerful mandate, they can be expected to give Bush no ground during his tenure...
Because Dukakis had a good showing in the state polls--he won nearly 59 percent of the popular vote--observers said yesterday that his state mandate would not be deminished by his presidential loss...
...After all he carried the state," said Martin Linsky, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School. "He's been a popular governor...
...reasonable account, Dukakis was the ideal Democratic nominee, even for the party's more liberal elements. After the 1984 election, pundits and strategists consistently called on the Democrats to nominate one of their young, pragmatic, popular, technocratic governors, and to shy away from the tired liberalism of older Democrats...
...wasn't until Ronald Reagan came along, waving pistols on horseback, that the Republicans embraced conservatism and made liberalism the political philosophy that dares not say its name. Republican congressional candidates who have embraced conservatism have been largely successful, while even in the wake of the Reagan 1980 landslide popular incumbent Senator Charles Percy, a moderate Republican, lost to liberal Democratic candidate Paul Simon in Illinois...