Word: populist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realm of neopopulism with powerful talk of the "middle-class squeeze" and "two-job prosperity," the Governor was wont to abandon the topic without warning. This message madness continued until the final weeks, when he seized on the theme "I'm on your side" and decided to ride the populist pony as far as it would go. Still, he could not master the chords of resentment that are a basic component of economic populism...
...contends that just like the Democrats this year, the Republicans ought to have won the 1948 election. Truman managed to mount one last crusade against the memory of Herbert Hoover, but the Republican triumph in 1952 was all but inevitable. "I don't see how George can play the populist role for too long," Phillips says. "If we get an economic downturn, he can't get away with pork rinds and Loretta Lynn...
Sasso found the campaign in disarray, the advertising a shambles. He quickly signed up surrogates like Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley to stump for Dukakis. Soon Dukakis began to fire back with his populist message of fighting for the middle class. But it was too little, too late...
...hero. A multimillionaire bachelor, Kohl, 53, spent $5 million of his own money to defeat Susan Engeleiter, 36, the Republican leader in the state senate. When Proxmire won re-election in 1982, he spent just $145. Yet, like Proxmire, Kohl refused contributions from special-interest groups and ran a populist, soak- the-rich campaign, calling for tax hikes for the wealthy. His affluence, he contended, meant that he would be "nobody's Senator but yours...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan--Benazir Bhutto '73 claimed victory early this morning after election returns showed her populist party trouncing the opposition in Pakistan's first open elections in more than a decade...