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...could be as easily supplied by any reporter with a tough question, and it should be, every day. Few things this year upset me more than when newspapers gave their campaign coverage to TV or entertainment critics, who reviewed the performances of presidential nominees a paragraph above those of ABC sitcom actors. The saddest thing of all is that these entertainment reviews were more insightful than the political commentary...
...REMEMBRANCE (ABC, Nov. 13-23). Cast of thousands! Cost of millions! Makes Roots look like a sapling! The mammoth sequel to The Winds of War closes out its 18-hour fall campaign this week and sets the stage for a twelve-hour- plus conclusion next year...
...another planet would surely have thought the presidential race was about prison furloughs, the death penalty for drug kingpins, mandatory Pledge of Allegiance and Dan Quayle's IQ. But on Election Day, these hot- button issues turned out to be largely irrelevant. Only 12% of the voters questioned by ABC News said that the Pledge, prison furloughs or Quayle were important to them; just 26% said they were concerned about the death penalty...
Sixty percent of the voters in the ABC poll said defense spending should stay the same or be increased; not surprisingly, nearly 70% of this group went for Bush. Dukakis got 74% of the minority who think the Pentagon needs less money. Crime -- sometimes a code word for race -- was a winner for the Republicans. In a CBS/New York Times poll, 25% of Bush voters cited crime as a major reason for supporting...
...approved of the job the President is doing, 86% voted for Bush. The Vice President also got a tremendous boost from his ! resume. Those who counted experience as the most important factor in their choice backed Bush by an overwhelming majority, 94% to 6% in the ABC poll. ABC also found that voters rated Bush highly as being trustworthy and a strong leader...