Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scars from that race lingered, even as Simon won a House seat in 1974. What haunted him was his failure to respond directly to Walker's charges. "I learned that if your opponent takes out after you, you take out after him," he says. If anything, Simon erred the other way in his 1984 upset of three- term Senator Charles Percy: he was too aggressive. As David Axelrod, who was and still is a top Simon campaign adviser, puts it, "When he lashed out against Percy, there was no question that some of that anger was lingering anger about...
...have been uneventful; the soft-spoken Simon is universally well liked by his colleagues, but even while on the Judiciary Committee during the Robert Bork hearings, he did little to claim public notice. He is very much a loner, acting as his own chief speechwriter and counsel. His presidential race began almost by accident. He endorsed Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers, and then belatedly jumped into the fray in May after Bumpers joined the ranks of Democratic sideliners...
...captivate a limited number of anti-chic contrarians, but they can make a candidate seem quirky to others. So is ideology; Simon's dovish rhetoric seems unlikely to play well in the South, even though Iowa voters respond to applause lines like "I think the choice is the arms race or the human race." Simon may confound liberal orthodoxy by his support of a balanced-budget amendment, but the centerpiece of his domestic agenda remains an almost nostalgic $8 billion public jobs program, modeled after Franklin Roosevelt's WPA. There is a lingering suspicion that Democratic voters are just flirting...
...Washington the urbane and sardonic Senate minority leader may seem like the George Sanders of the Republican race; out in the rest of the country, he comes off like Will Rogers. As he returns to Russell, Kans., this week to make his formal announcement, Dole once again will be tugging at his hometown roots. Arguing that all the Republican candidates are pretty much alike on matters of policy, Dole is running mainly on his newly minted persona -- softer, less biting. The risk of such a strategy is that he will become known as the candidate with the split personality...
Marijuana use wrecks Douglas Ginsburg' s Supreme Court omination. -- Caspar Weinberger retires, and the Pentagon gets Frank Carlucci, a battlewise bureaucrat less leery of compromise. -- Homely but authentic, Paul Simon is moving ahead in the Democratic presidential race. -- Winds of change in Mississippi...