Grandview High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Grandview, MO)

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Everyone can't be a winner fter twenty year and againt all poll , G.0.P. torm the nation There was no warning. Almost overnight, the minority forces moved in and took it overg now they had the majorityg it was theirs-from the highest office in the land down to the state legislatures. Even experts na- tionwide could not forsee its passage, yet it happened. For over 20 years, the U.S. Senate was Democratic. Now the tide has shifted. The Republicans now hold the upper hand in the Senate and have made major gains in the House of Re- presentatives. But did anyone antici- pate such a landslide? Where were the pollsters? Weeks before the November 4 elec- tion, pollsters claimed to have had a presidential race that was too close to call. Following the summer political conventions where former President Jimmy Carter and President Ronald Reagan were easily nominated, poll- sters' surveys agreed that it was to be a very tight race, and that they could not clearly predict a definate victor. To the contrary, Grandview students picked a clear winner by a minimum ten percent. A Student Magazine poll surveyed 813 students and yielded a 47070 to 3706 Reagan advantage, while a social studies department-spon- sored mock election scored a 55070 to 34011 victory over Carter. The mock election, which has accu- rately indicated presidential election winners since 196O, featured registra- tion forms and voting ballots similar to 20 Election I DL those used in official elections, accord- ing to Mary Beth Craddock, social studies department head. Actual results for the presidential election revealed a 5101: to 41070 Reagan victory in the popular vote, a 10-to-1 landslide in the electoral college secured Reagan the presidency with all but six states and the District of Co- lumbia. Reasons for the discrepancy came from Patrick Caddell, Carter's pollster. He believed that in addition to the presidential debate during the last week of the campaign, the Iranian hos- tage situation played a major role. With more updates on the crisis sur- facing only days before the election, public frustration grew, along with con- tinuing issues of the many economic woes. Other pollsters supported Caddell's big-bang' campaign theory where eight million voters changed to Reagan's views in a 48-hour period. Agreeing with Caddell was Time Mag- azine's pollster, David Yankelovich. There is every reason to assume that is what happened. When people are conflicted, they procrastinate. And that's what they did in this election, Yankelovich said. But an anticipated closer race occured in the Missouri gubernatorial race. Republican Christopher l Kit l Bond regained the governor's spotlight from Democrat Joseph Teasdale after unex- pectedly losing to him by less than one percent of the vote in 1976. With a 5370 to 4706 triumph, Bond hit hard at Teasdale's poor office ap- pointments and false pledges on lower- ing the state's electric utility rates. Bond believed that the unkept prom- ises were not worth making if they could not be followed through. I'm not going to make a lot of promises, because I can't outpromise the 'Great Promiser, ' Bond said. Teasdale countered Bond's state- ments by criticizing his wealthy Princeton education. Besides Missouri's Teasdale being shook from office, many of the United States Senate liberal Democrats were also shaken loose. Among the leading Democrats not returning were George McGovern of South Dakota, Frank Church of Idaho, John Culver of Iowa, and Warren Magnuson of Washington. Only Alan Cranston of California and Thomas Eagleton of Missouri slipped through the election unscathed. Returning for a third term, Eagleton narrowily defeated Gene McNary in the senatorial contest, And according to Republican Robert Dole of Kansas, the Senate was far different under G.O.P. management than before. The liberals in Congress are going to have to learn a lesson. There is a kind of liberalism that doesn't wash anymore, Dole said. -Doug Larsen

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Things looked good in Mudville . . didn't trike out Play-by-play descriptions chattered from the Sony portable while fans watched the gridiron action and cheered the team. As the cool, nose-numbing, night air descended upon the stadium, radio tun- ing dials rapidly scanned the frequency bands on both sides of the field in ef- forts to find the radio station broad- casting the game. But Raytown's homecoming game against Grandview was not what the fans were so intensely waiting for. Over 1,200 miles to the east at Yan- kee Stadium in New York City, the Kansas City Royals were preparing to make a three-game sweep of the American League playoff series, an event that would spin a city into elev- en days of baseball festivities. Immediately following the final victory, Kansas City recognized the significance of the win. After losing three consecutive playoffs to the New York boys, the Royals were finally the American League champions and the cowtown broke into celebration. Slow, time-consuming Westport traffic blossomed into a symphony of trumpet- ing car horns, accompanied by chants of 22 Royals I KF We're ffl. The jubilant fracas rendered the air in high spirit. Further north, thousands of people af- flicted with Royalmania flocked to Crown Center Square, according to Tom Hall, senior. Bumper-to-bumper cars herded through the square to the under- ground corrals. Royals banners were hitched to nearly every post and rail in the square. The highlight of the win was the gathering at Crown Center afterwards. Everyone was singing 'Royals number one,' and I didn't leave until two, Hall said. But realization of the next week's events were only temporarily delayed. The confrontation with the Philadelphia Phillies at Veteran's Stadium in base- ball's national showcase, the World Se- ries, was only three short days away. After losing the first two games to the Phillies, the Royals brought the Series to Kansas City on October 24, being the first major sporting event the city had ever hosted. Only once before, when the Chiefs played at the New Orleans Tulane Sta- dium in 1970, had the city participated in a match of such scope. The Royals, along with third base- man George Brett, finally came home to the open arms of Kansas City, Suf- fering from a two-game deficit, the Royals also had to contend with a medical ailment that troubled Brett, whose .400 batting average brought him and the Royals national recogni- tion. Despite the early problems, the Royals routed the phantastic Phillies on Friday night and Saturday afternoon to even the record. Though the Royals made a striking comeback, they fell to the Phillies on Sunday at home and again on Tuesday in Philadelphia, giving the Series to Philadelphia, having been to the World Series only three times in their 97-year club history, But there was no bitter anguish felt towards Philadelphia. Brett summed up the final game as a little bit of frus- trationg the frustration of being so close. Beating the Yankees in three straight was the greatest thing in my life, ln addition to sweeping the Yankees, the Royals finished 14 games ahead of the Oakland in the American League