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...these final hours, unless unforetold events intervene, the voters who have decided will harden their positions as they absorb additional glimpses and reports on the men. The undecided will pile up all the pieces of information gathered through these weeks and see which way the scale tips-if it does tip either way. With them, a small item might make the difference. The Washington Post's Ben Bradlee figures that the ingredients will be "seven or eight parts TV, three or four parts reading, one part wife or husband, one part drugstore, one part religion and one part geography...
...next four years and the Democratic majority in Congress is somewhat diminished, he will have a hard time because the Democrats will have fresh and tougher leadership on the Hill. The Speaker of the House will no longer be the amiable Carl Albert but Massachusetts' Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, 63, a shrewd liberal who will more aggressively challenge the White House. In the Senate, the favorite to replace Montana's scholarly and restrained Mike Mansfield as majority leader is West Virginia's Robert Byrd, 58, and he is also likely to push harder for social legislation...
Governor Michael S. Dukakis made an appearance, telling the crowd that the "vibrations across the country sound very, very good. After 22 months wrestling with Republicans in Washington, D.C., the thought of having Tip O'Neill as Speaker of the House and Jimmy Carter and Fritz Mondale in the White House is just too much to believe...
While Rep. Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.) promised a nationwide Democratic "tidal wave" at the Fantasia in Cambridge, Independent Saundra Graham's supporters gathered across from the Jack-in-the-Box in Central Square to applaud her victory against incumbent John J. Toomey...
...victory of Rep. Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass) over his Republican opponent William A. Barnstead yesterday virtually assures his election this January as Speaker of the House with the retirement of the current Speaker, Rep. Carl B. Albert (D-Okla...