In a moment of victory, Bush heads for defeat "Big Mo," he had called it, meaning momentum, that mysteriously intangible element that sometimes knocks aside all facts and logic as it sweeps a man on toward victory. George Bush had it once, last fall, when he startled the political world by defeating Ronald Reagan in Iowa caucuses and becoming temporarily the front runner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Last week Bush beat Reagan again, and in the important state of Michigan. He won the popular vote in the primary by...
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