Word: spoilers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Marchais's speech was characteristic of the perverse, often perplexing performance that has made him the spoiler of the campaign. That role has taken on a bizarre urgency as the two-round election draws close. Polls indicate that in the first round, April 26, Mitterrand should handily defeat both Marchais and the fourth challenger, Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac, and run a close second to Giscard...
...state after state came in for Reagan, speculation over whether Anderson's course would result in the much-feared spoiler effect turned instead to the question of whether he would garner enough votes to qualify for federal matching funds...
Downstairs in the Republic Ballroom, about 150 workers for independent candidate Rep. John B. Anderson (R-Ill.) sat cross-legged, yelling, "Spoiler!" when Carter appeared on the large screen projection television to make his concession speech...
Personality, not politics, has dominated the 1980 presidential campaign. Environmental, economic, and social issues have taken a back seat to name-calling and virtual character assassination. Jimmy Carter thinks Ronald Reagan is a warmonger and John Anderson, a spoiler. Ronald Reagan thinks Jimmy Carter is a malicious backstabber, and John Anderson, a spoiler. Anderson thinks both major parties have failed the electorate but that he can provide the "difference...
...will vote for Anderson. Says Haughton: "They say about him being a spoiler. He could win. He could make Reagan lose. He could make Carter lose. It could go to the House of Representatives. It's all right with me. It's getting so that since Truman these Presidents don't do a damn thing. Maybe there's nothing can be done. I always believed in the American dream. But it's not happening. I don't think the President controls the country. On that Iran raid, I could have got a gang here...