Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regarded hopeful in a jammed Democratic field, McGovern laid down an economic program that seemed remarkably precise. Once he began winning primaries, his positions were put to deep analysis. McGovern's figures just did not add up, and the discrepancies were great enough to suggest that the Prairie Populist had not fully thought through his ideas...
...hopes of both Humphrey and Muskie may have been tinged with a lingering disbelief. Here was plain, slow-spoken George McGovern, minister's son, prairie populist, leading the armies of commitment and ideological chic. However ruggedly colorless the driver, his bandwagon rolled flamboyantly on, bright with the fresh-faced young and the movie stars and intellectuals who had found their new political vehicle. Behind a superbly organized and financed army of volunteers, McGovern had all but won the delegate battle through the primaries and state conventions. It was a neat touch that he was playing by the party reform...
...McGovern campaign has had large support from small contributors, but even the prairie populist also needs help from millionaires. In fact, McGovern has been able to outspend all his primary opponents. To a surprising degree, the man who wants to redistribute the nation's wealth is attracting affluent donors...
...suggestion of Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of Government, Kearns read the 1912 Progressive Party and 1896 Populist Party platforms, which she said were much closer to the mood of the 1970's than more recent platforms...
...read with interest your cover story on the "Prairie Populist" and was both amazed and fascinated by the ironies and inconsistencies of this year's "spectacular." McGovern questions John Lindsay's populist credentials because Lindsay plays squash at the Yale Club. Should anti-Establishment populists who live in $110,000 houses cast stones...