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...Washington Post's top political reporter, David S. Broder: "Not the midpoint in the Reagan presidency but its phaseout. . . an accelerating retreat from Reaganism, a process in which he is more spectator than leader...
Political reporters want to retain access to news sources, what sportswriters might call locker-room reentry. Unworried, Broder says, "I'm not looking for social relationships, I'm looking for working relationships." He generally finds that even in Administrations he attacks, "they take you seriously if they see you are seriously interested in getting their point of view and getting information...
...Wicker of the New York Times forecast that concern over Administration designs on Social Security would drive many Republican-leaning elderly voters into the Democratic camp. And David Broder of the Washington Post performed an uncharacteristic double swerve: after ruminating two weeks before the election about "a landslide that may never land," he trumpeted six days before the voting that Democrats were "in striking range of control of the Senate." He then backed off four days later and guessed, correctly, that a standoff was the probable Senate result. As a group the commentators were like generals fighting the previous...
...analysts were there, including reporters of every medium from nearly every city in the state. A group of political scientists from the State University of New York at Potsdam and the University of Massachusetts came to distribute surveys to all of the delegates. The venerable David S. Broder, columnist for the Washington Post and noted authority on political parties graced the hall...
...difficult to say at this point which rules will help which candidates, so few observers publicly read political motives into the actions of the representatives. David S. Broder, who has been covering the commission for the Washington Post, says, "Those of us sitting there watching the proceedings were stupefied to see how little maneuvering" went...