Word: unseat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With equal conviction, many of Hart's supporters look beyond the primary season and hardheadedly view him as the Democrat most likely to unseat Ronald Reagan in November. At .the Democratic caucus in Cumberland, Me., for example, some 70 participants spent an hour discussing the candidates' electability. Said Geologist Frederick Bragdon: "I didn't feel the Democrats were putting forward the best candidate to defeat Ronald Reagan. After New Hampshire, I see Gary Hart as a potential candidate who can do that." For Tom Puckett, 30, of Savannah, not even his personal uncertainty about Hart...
Democrats would particularly like to unseat prominent Sen. Charles H. Percy of Illinois, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Although a moderate on social issues, Percy has stood quietly, but staunchly, behind President Reagan's economic program. He faces a strong challenge from the right, from the more uniformly conservative Rep. Tom Corcoran, in what will probably be the only GOP primary for an incumbent...
Richardson faces primary challenges from Dr. Mildred Jefferson of Boston, an anti-abortion activist, and Shamie, who spent nearly $1-million of his own money in an unsuccessful attempt to unseat Sen. Edward M. Kennedy...
While Mondale has risen in the polls, so has the man he seeks to unseat, Ronald Reagan. The President is riding a tide of good feeling generated by the robust economic recovery. About 60% of those responding to the poll "feel that things are going well these days," while about one-third were as sanguine a year ago. In fact, the country's mood is better than at any other time in the past six years. Nonetheless, the number of those who say that they feel "a lot of confidence in the future" (35%) has remained virtually unchanged...
...running a close second to the former Vice President, and each draws more support from Democrats and independent voters than all of the other contenders for their party's presidential nomination combined. But as the Democrats jostle and jockey on the hustings, the man they seek to unseat remains an elusive and increasingly formidable target. Ronald Reagan, ambling along at his own aw-shucks pace toward announcing for reelection, has perked up his poll ratings with a personal popularity that continues to outpace that of his policies or his party...