Word: populist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...championing consumer and environmental issues. In 1982 he was elected Governor by a margin of 25,000 votes out of 406,000 cast, considered a landslide in New Mexico. Under state law, however, Anaya cannot succeed himself, a fact that has made him work feverishly to put his populist stamp on state government and consolidate power in the Governor's office. He has persuaded the state legislature to place more state policy and planning functions under his control. To keep the bureaucracy in line, Anaya is in the process of naming six "policy aides" to be his personal liaisons...
...year's keenly contested election for mayor, the two men were politically the most leftward in the race, both running on a promise to shift money and urban-planning energies away from glamorous downtown and harbor-front development toward rebuilding Boston's neglected working-class neighborhoods. Their populist appeals proved so evenly matched, in fact, that when voters in last week's nonpartisan primary picked them as the two mayoral finalists out of an eight-candidate field, Melvin King got just 98 more votes (out of a record 165,688 cast) than City Councilman Raymond Flynn...
Owing to Jesse Jackson's unique charismatic capacity for populist around among lower-starts Afro-Americans, a Jackson presidential candidacy is capable of smashing Black voter apathy and, thereby, affecting the outcome of Reagan's bid for a second term even if Reagan gained his 1980 percentage of white votes...
Supreme Court rulings upholding legalized abortion, first in 1973 and again this summer, reflect the belief that women have the right to choose whether or not to bear a child. Nor did these rulings buck a tide of populist opposition; polls have shown that a majority of Americans believe women should be able to opt for an abortion...
...encouragement, no state organizations, and a wife who says she will not stump for him. He lost the 1972 general election by the largest plurality in history. In 1980, South Dakota voters ousted him from the Senate after 18 years of service. But George McGovern, 61, the outspoken prairie populist and critic of the Viet Nam War, is running for President-again. Said he after announcing his candidacy at a press conference last week: "I think I've got a real shot at the nomination...