Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some Reagan backers cited their support for the Republican Party or the strength of the President's leadership...
...open seats up for grabs--only about 20--and this fact should benefit the Democrats, Normally, more than 40 districts do not have incumbents running, and these seats are usually more inclined to go to the victorious presidential candidate's party. So what could have been a source of strength for the GOP has been significantly diminished...
...contest the findings against them. Insisting on his innocence, Ver charged that the majority report's conclusions were "farfetched" and "no better I than a series of inductive arguments"; he demanded a separate and immediate trial. The embattled suspects did their best to turn the Agravatars' own strength against them. "The board has been waylaid by the enemies of the state," charged Olivas. Ver accused the panel of being "a tool to destroy the protectors of the republic...
What's worse, the bad-mouthing and image-bashing seems to have been paying off. Last summer Jepsen began overtaking Harkin's seven point lead in the polls on the strength of his heavily negative advertising, and by mid-September he was nine points in front. Last month Harkin began to respond in kind, and according to the Des Moines Register's Iowa poll, he now leads 46 percent to Jepsen's 41 percent. Both candidates are expected to spend close to $3 million apiece, largely from PAC and Party funds...
Mather, whose record now stands at 0-3, did not have the size or the strength to stop the Eliot juggernaut...