Word: winner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wednesday afternoon, Carter could be certain of only a 56-vote electoral margin. He had won 23 states and the District of Columbia?297 electoral votes. Ford had won 27 states with 241 votes. In no fewer than seven states the electoral winner was determined by roughly 1% of the votes. Carter's popular vote edge was more substantial. In actual votes, Carter won by almost 2 million, or 51% to Ford's 48%, greater than the bare victories of either Jack Kennedy in 1960 (49.7%) or Richard Nixon...
...degree along the fault line separating the haves and havenots. The affluent, the well-educated, the suburbanites largely went for Ford; the socially and economically disadvantaged for Carter. Thus Carter is in a position similar to that of John Kennedy in 1960 and of Richard Nixon in 1968-a winner by a whisker who must still create a national following and prove himself to a truly broad constituency...
...WINNER...
That Hearnes was even running was the result of a tragedy: the attractive, popular Democratic primary winner, Rep. Jerry Litton, died with his family in the crash of a small plane carrying them to a victory celebration. As a fillin, Hearnes, who had been a distant second in the primary, looked like a loser from the start. He had only about $151,000 in campaign funds for the battle with Danforth, who spent $600,000. Forced to scrimp, Hearnes served as his own campaign manager, advance man, and even driver...
MICHIGAN: SINNER BUT A WINNER...