Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Long before last week, political consultants concluded that negative ads often have more impact than positive ones. The negative ads in many 1986 Senate races were critical failures but ballot-box successes. According to Democratic Pollster Mark Mellman, studies show that people process negative information more thoroughly than positive statements. Media Consultant Robert Squier sees the New Hampshire ads as part of a general trend toward what could be called infomercials. "Any information," he says, "will be voraciously consumed by the voter...
...supporting whoever the Democratic nominee is in July," Ferraro says." I will not pick a candidate before that time except when I go in with a secret ballot and pick him myself in the voting booth in the primaries in New York...
...political novice--she's a Republican precinct committee member and has held county-wide office. And she doesn't spend much time watching television evangelists or Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network. But, come May and the less-than-crucial Oregon primary, mom will be casting her ballot for the television broadcaster from Virginia...
...thinks there's something wrong with the federal government. She thought so in 1980, when she cast her ballot for California Governor Ronald Reagan. Reagan promised to reduce the bureaucracy and cut government spending, but he didn't deliver. She worried about the national debt in 1980. Reagan vowed to balance the budget, but he ran up more debt than all of his predecessors combined...
...aimed at promoting unity among antigovernment forces in National Assembly elections, which have been scheduled for this spring. Kim Dae Jung, for his part, has installed a system of collective leadership for his Party for Peace and Democracy, but he vowed not to step aside until after the legislative ballot...