Word: tweedledums
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...will be a Tweedledee and Tweedledum race in the Fourth Congressional District as two liberals--State Rep. Martin A Linsky (R-Brookline) and Rep. Robert Driman (D-Newton)--meet at the polls in November...
...earned her reputation as a defender of the poor by sitting around in Colombia's lavish private clubs. Maria Eugenia is the force behind a growing wave of populism. As her political power grows, the nation's Liberal and Conservative parties, which offer little more than Tweedledum and Tweedledee choices, are growing downright panicky...
...bluntly," Kennedy said. "Richard Nixon was elected in 1968 because people like you sat on your hands. They did not work in the campaign because their own candidates had been lost in Los Angelos or Chicago. They did not vote because they thought they had a Tweedledum-Tweedledee choice...
...despite his insistence that the student vote can produce drastic changes in the system, Kennedy failed to convince the students at Rindge Technical Auditorium that the 1972 election would be anything but another "Tweedledee-Tweedledum" race between a Nixon and a Muskie...
...registered 18-to-20-year-olds polled, no less than 78% voted, against 48% of the total registered voters. Many prognosticators hold that the strength of the youth turnout in 1972 will depend largely on the candidates. If the major parties offer what the young would see as a tweedledum-tweedledee choice between Nixon and a Humphrey, they would be even more turned off than their elders. But if the Democrats put up an inspiring candidate, the young will be more likely to vote...