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...that, Ford could eke out a narrow victory. Chief asset: indications, persuasive even to some Reagan admirers, that the horse in the stable is the best horse against the Democrats. Chief hope: a large turnout. Chief weakness: widespread perception that he supplies wobbly, uninspiring leadership. "I hope he spends a lot of time here," snipes Reagan California Campaign Manager Lyn Nofziger. "The more he's exposed, the better it is for us." But Ford supporters, who include most of the G.O.P. notables, want him back for at least another three days following last weekend...
...Some of that can be traced to his government's success in negotiating a second-phase pay increase limit with the country's trade unions that is designed to halve Britain's critical inflation rate to about 6% by the end of next year. Another Callaghan asset is his personal openness and ebullience. At his new official home at No. 10 Downing Street, he tells visitors that he feels like a cardinal who has suddenly been named Pope: "God has given me the papacy. Now I propose to enjoy...
...hunger for a Democratic candidate who can win in November and 2) the search for an indefinable quality of moral leadership at a time when 61% of the respondents feel something is morally wrong in the nation. That search for moral leadership promises to be Carter's strongest asset against Ford. Of those voters who feel something is morally wrong in the nation, 54% said they would vote for Carter in November, while 31% would support Ford. Another factor in Carter's favor is the extraordinary attention voters are paying this year to "the man" rather than...
...Despite the brief uproar over his "ethnic purity"remarks, a strong 62% of the voters regard him as a fair person on racial issues. And 50% of the voters do not consider Carter's intense religious convictions a factor in the election; 32% believe such views are an asset; only 8% are worried by them...
...best asset is that I haven't peaked yet like some of the players from larger schools," he said. "I still have a great deal of potential left...