Word: superably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year started to grow, enlarged by the sheer act of winning. Men who seemed implausible as potential Presidents suddenly began to - come into sharper focus as plausible leaders of the nation. Not perfect, to be sure, not yet exciting in most cases, but no longer presumptuous in their ambition. Super Tuesday rearranged the presidential race with unexpected logic and sense...
...Super Tuesday strengthened Northerner Michael Dukakis. Picking his shots carefully in Florida and Texas, the Massachusetts Governor also added delegates from the few non-Southern states that held their contests on Tuesday. By avoiding a drubbing in a region far from his own, emotionally as well as geographically, he remains the front runner...
...Although Super Tuesday did not settle things for the Democrats, it left the party with a field that accurately represents its three main political wings: New Deal liberals, more conservative Southerners, and blacks. Now these groups must bridge their differences -- at least if they want to win in the fall...
...larger sense, the post-Super Tuesday race for the nomination reflects the national state of mind in the twilight of the Reagan years. Despite some of his recent blunders, the President is still regarded with a powerful affection that has bred a certain reluctance to say goodbye to a gauzy era of good feeling. Bush benefits from this kind of contemporary nostalgia. His dogged loyalty to the President enables him to inherit some of Reagan's popularity...
...problems, the chaotic primary system has infused American politics with the life and energy it needs. The process offers unknowns a chance to shine in the early, small-state races. It permits the best organized and the best financed to show their stuff in Olympian contests like Super Tuesday. And although one can argue that money and TV advertising distorted last week's results, the ability to raise a lot of cash in small amounts from a lot of people is a kind of plebiscite in itself, a test of a candidate's core support. In its very complexity...