Individuals face strict limits on how much they may give to a candidate, so the kind of big donations that jump-started Eugene McCarthy's anti-war candidacy in 1968 are still illegal.
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey was headed for the party's nomination, but the anti-war candidacy of Eugene McCarthy made the Democrats' convention a focal point for the tensions of the day.
And Representative Ron Paul of Texas, whose libertarian, anti-war candidacy has made him a surprise fund-raising sensation on the Internet, allowed that he was "struggling to figure out how to spend the money".
Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts won the Iowa caucuses here Monday, brushing aside the insurgent anti-war candidacy of Howard Dean by presenting himself as the strongest Democrat his party had to send up against President Bush next year.
The latter's rise in New Hampshire, which was supposed to be Kerry country, is making Washington Democrats terrified at the prospect of a new George McGovern, whose anti-war candidacy was buried by Richard Nixon in 1972 look again at the three people who might become the ABD (Anyone But Dean) candidate.Ideologically, Joe Lieberman would fit this position most neatly.
By providing a rallying point for those who want opposition to austerity and endless war, his candidacy should at least halt the mainstream candidates' stampede to the right – which is taking them further away from the voters they need to win back.
Following that, the Party went through a tumultuous period with liberal Democrat Eugene McCarthy undertaking an anti-Vietnam War presidential candidacy in 1968; liberal George McGovern being crushed in the 1972 presidential race against Richard Nixon; and, the more main stream Jimmy Carter wining in 1976 over Gerry Ford.
Mr. Clinton later asserted that his comment referred to Mr. Obama's stance on the war, not his candidacy.
Weighty issues of the day such as the Iraq war and the candidacy of Barack Obama made campus a hopeful place for students, Felder said, and prominent speakers like Shimon Peres and other international statesmen let him become ensconced in studying issues in depth.
