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Book on radicalization of GOP focusing on impact of NCAPC in four 1980 sen races

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Tuesday Night Massacre by Marc Johnson

Interesting book. Looks at importance of Terry Dolan in shoving aside the GOP regulars and using "independent" PACs to attack with negative campaigns four Dem senators in 1980, regardless of the truth of the campaigns, because winning was everything. Describes how successful those tactics were and still are, and sees those campaigns as the catalyst to providing juice to the old Goldwater manifesto. Lots of kind of inside stories of some familiar names. Any of you who have served in any GOP political campaign since Goldwater days or even more recently the Tea Party movement will have worked with or against some of these people and their tactics. Some of you probably have worked for them. Either way it is a good chronicle.

The author was an aide to Dem Gov Andrus of Idaho and is now a journalist and author. Not a book about Trump. Does have a pro Dem bias.

Senators were Culver, Church, Bayh and McGovern.
 
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So Reagan defeating Carter (to most observers surprise). The general malaise and disenchantment in the electorate didn’t have anything to do with it?

Culver never attempted a comeback. Decided being a DC lawyer was a better opportunity. Or maybe Grassley was just a better candidate.

And McGovern spent most of the 1970s using his position to tell us we had too much fat in our diets. When we dropped the fat we got really fat...
 
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