Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy and McCarthy liberals have overwhelming control of whatever party organization exists and have demonstrated popular support in all party primaries. The name of the game is "Big Daddy" Speaker Jesse Unruh who wants the gubernatorial nod in 1970. Up against Kennedy-man Unruh in '70 will probably be San Francisco Mayor "the John Lindsay of the West" Joseph Alioto who, though nominating Humphrey in Chicago, is still very much a liberal on policy...
...model for a liberal take-over. In February, 1968 a struggling band of peaceniks started a McCarthy organization. It dug in at the grassroots and came up with this traditional Republican state's first viable Democratic political organization by July. It is liberal, extremely dynamic, and lead by popular Gov. Harold Hughes who nominated McCarthy in Chicago...
...AUTOMATIC PLAN was first described by Thomas Jefferson in 1801 and was urged as recently as 1966 by Lyndon Johnson. It would abolish the electors, award their votes to each state's popular winner, and thus eliminate unpledged and "faithless electors" (17 in the past two decades) who might break their party pledges. Chief drawback of the automatic system: it would not abolish the two features that contribute to the election of minority Presidents: the winner-take-all system, and the unequal weights given to voters in different states...
Businessmen ask for his autograph on dollar bills. Hippies string medallions around his neck. Teen-age girls line up to kiss him. After a summer in office, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau is still prodigiously popular among Canadians, who are clearly as delighted as they can be with the new national image that he is shaping...
...occupying troops," but their stories are anything but friendly. Rude Pravo reported with oblique subtlety that any agreements Dubček made in Moscow had been dictated by "unimaginably abnormal circumstances," conducted a quick public-opinion poll that showed that Dubček and his reforms had overwhelming popular support...