Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dionne's analysis is correct, then the marketing of Super Tuesday as the great Southern primary is overstated. The great television primary will prove to be a better...
Kalb says he expects the contest to disappoint Southern Democratic leaders, who structured the 20 simultaneous primaries in 1984 to improve the chances of party centrists for the nomination...
Kalb says further that Gore may not get the strong campaign push he hopes for from his fellow Southerners. "If the polls are correct, either a candidate named 'undecided,' or a candidate named Dukakis, or a third candidate named Jackson may end up with all of the marbles, and not Gore," he says. "The strategy, even from the point of view of a Southern moderate Democrat, may backfire...
...while Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis put the finishing touches on his Southern campaign this weekend, most of his rivals for the Democratic nomination chose to cut their losses by avoiding the popular governor's own state...
...Washington the Reagan Administration firmly backed the failed effort to oust Noriega. "We want to reiterate our unqualified support for civilian constitutional rule in Panama," said White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. With 10,000 troops at U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Panama, Washington is sensitive to charges that it seeks to bully its neighbor. Yet Vice President George Bush talked tough while campaigning in South Carolina for the Republican presidential nomination. "We're not going to be pushed around about the defense of the Panama Canal," Bush said. "We will do whatever is necessary to protect American interests...