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...ties at the Sep. 6 Democratic Senate candidates debate. But the physical and ideological similarities between the two are not. The "liberal twins"--as more moderate contender Michael J. Connolly, the secretary of state, calls them--are both young. Catholic well-educated, and products of a post-Vietnam War backlash that has led them to impassioned opposition to U.S. military involvement abroad and the nuclear arms race on moral rather than political grounds...
...months, G.O.P. registrations in rural Scotland County, N.C., increased from about 1,000 to almost 2,300. Lamarr Mooneyham, a Moral Majority official, says he has indeed been "fishing for conservatives in church waters." The white vote, however, is no solid bloc of fundamentalists, and some backlash seems possible. The Darden poll asked about a hypothetical endorsement by Moral Majority Founder Jerry Falwell, who is campaigning for Reagan. By a ratio of 3 to 1, Southerners said they would be less likely to support a candidate endorsed by Falwell...
...workers in day care centers began asking every parent to register and vote. In Alabama, Mondale campaign headquarters logged within hours 65 calls from women volunteers. But how widespread will this phenomenon be, how long will it last and to what ex- tent might it be offset by a backlash among men and more traditionalist women...
Earlier polls generally had shown a woman vice-presidential candidate would attract about as many voters as she would repel. Politicians, and some pollsters, are not at all sure, though, that the surveys are correctly measuring the extent of potential backlash. They note that voters have been asked to respond to a theoretical situation that they have never actually had to face. One Republican pollster points out another factor that may distort the results: the majority of the people employed organizations to question voters are women, and men may hesitate to express unfavorable opinions of a woman candidate to them...
...they may not vote at all if the Democrats ignore their needs. If the party can meet its goal of registering 3 million blacks and Hispanics, Mondale's aides say, "Populist Fritz" can win in the fall-as long as there is not a correspondingly large white backlash...