Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas was going to three states during the day in a bid to help endangered GOP candidates for Congress. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) countered for the Democrats by campaigning in Minnesota, where Hubert H. Humphrey III is a Senate race underdog...
Peres, 65, speaking at Labor headquartersminutes after Shamir's speech, said Labor wasstill in the race...
...Getting people out to vote is the key. Students can really make a difference," Rottenberg said, explaining that students are targeting Connecticut because the campaign expects a close race there...
DURING the 1986 campaign, Joe Kennedy was the Dan Quayle of the race--young, inexperienced, thin-skinned and, by most accounts, stupid. Yet Kennedy's charisma--added to enormous financial resources, instantaneous name recognition, and a superb campaign organization--contributed to his victory over a crowded field of candidates...
Having spent a great deal of time and energy campaigning for one of Kennedy's opponents (State Rep. Tom Gallagher, who dropped out of the race in late June), I failed to understand why the electorate could have chosen style over substance. Besides Gallagher, with his passionate commitment and coherent socialist analysis, there was George Bachrach, as shrewd and capable a politician as can be found in Massachusetts, and Mel King, a stern but enormously popular activist of longstanding in Boston politics...