Word: populists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to run for President. The good Reverend won't actually throw his frock into the political arena unless three million people indicate their support for him in the next year. Robertson has deftly avoided appearing too political while at the same time creating the beginnings of a populist "Draft Robertson" campaign...
...their names, across to a frequently indifferent public. In person and on television, New York's little-known Republican gubernatorial candidate Andrew O'Rourke is using a cardboard cutout of Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo to deride his popular opponent as "one-dimensional." South Dakota Congressman Tom Daschle, a populist Democrat hoping to unseat incumbent Senator James Abdnor, juxtaposes shots of long, gleaming limousines purring around Washington with , pictures of his own 1971 Pontiac wearily chugging toward the Senate Office Building...
Mikulski calls herself a "definite Democrat." Her ten-year record in Congress offers a clue to that somewhat murky label: she is an activist and a populist. She supports the Equal Rights Amendment, affirmative action and a woman's right to an abortion. Chavez, a former Democrat who became a Reagan Republican upon accepting a White House staff appointment 17 months ago, takes the opposite stand on each of those controversial issues. Before Reagan appointed her staff director of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission in 1983, Chavez worked on civil rights enforcement in the Carter Administration (she now considers Carter...
...University of Massachusetts at Boston), Kennedy founded a nonprofit corporation called Citizens Energy Corp., which provides inexpensive heating fuel and prescription drugs to low-income families. Citing his company's solid success in almost every speech, Kennedy mixes '60s liberalism with '80s pragmatism. His message is one of populist entrepreneurship, but Bachrach told the New York Times that Kennedy is the "candidate of the right in this race," fighting words in a district that went overwhelmingly for Walter Mondale...
Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, suggests a more general use that Democrats may make of the study. Giving his party's reply to one of Reagan's Saturday radio talks, Coelho spoke of a "populist revolt brewing" in the heartland. He added, "Nobody in the Administration pays attention as they fly over central America on their way from one coast to the other." That line hardly seems likely to go over in coastal states, but it could stir angry echoes inland...