Word: precampaign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anger. The sprightliest precampaign politicking has been supplied by the fractious Free Democrats, who are desperately worried lest they win less than 5% of the vote and lose their right to sit in the Bundestag. Their advertisements forcefully remind the electorate that they have not been afraid to walk out of the Cabinet when the Christian Democrats dragged their feet. Many Christian Democrats were so infuriated by the ads that they talked of throwing the Free Democrats out of the coalition-but they relented. No one wanted to reprimand the sinners so severely that they would be tempted to form...
SUNDAY (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Voter-in-the-street interviews and a review of precampaign and campaign statements by the presidential candidates...
...that the Tories once thundered against the pre-1957 Liberal regime for putting too many of Canada's trading eggs in one basket, Pearson snapped: "The only new baskets of any significance which have been developed are Red China and Cuba." At the Gallup poll's last precampaign sounding, the Liberals (who ruled Canada for 22 years from 1935 to 1957) narrowly lead the Tories by 41% to 38% among voters who have made up their minds. A more important figure is the 31% undecided. In such a circumstance, two minority parties, the farm-labor New Democratic...
...their precampaign jabbing at the Administration record, Democrats were getting some welcome help from the sidelines. Big-time newspaper pundits sniped at the Administration's recent foreign-policy embarrassments (see PRESS). New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, as outspoken an advocate of faster "growth" as any Democrat, warned that the "relative military power of the U.S. as compared with the Soviet Union has steadily and drastically declined over the past 15 years" and called for a $3.5 billion boost in the next defense budget...