Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble as he turned briskly into the Jimmy Carter storefront office in downtown Indianapolis last week. For months he had traveled around the country trying to sign up voters. It had been discouraging: only a few volunteers ever showed up, and there was rarely enough money for buttons and bumper stickers to soften up a sullen public...
Although the presidential race still looks like a celebrity sweepstakes at times, this campaign differs substantially from those in the past. Star-spangled benefits, which once filled concert halls and provided candidates with quick revenues, have gone the way of Nixon bumper stickers. The reason? The new campaign spending law makes such fund raisers useless...
Though his crowds were generally large and friendly, they displayed little of the frenzied excitement that certifies they will turn out at the polls. The main lingering residue of the ill-advised Playboy interview was ridicule, perpetuated in a bumper-sticker revision of Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign theme: IN HIS HEART, HE KNOWS YOUR WIFE. Volunteers, with no overriding issue to turn them on and a candidate who frequently turns them off, were hard to come by everywhere. There is some confusion between the relatively conservative Carter who speaks of love, healing and balanced budgets and the angry...
...Bullpen -- Two strong bullpens are led by Manny Sarmiento (2.06 ERA), Rawley Eastwick (2.08) and Pedro Borbon (3.31) for Cincinnati, and Ron Reed (2.46), Tug McGraw (2.51) and Gene Garber (2.81) for Philadelphia. Although McGraw has postseason experience, Eastwick stands out in this bumper crop of firemen to give the Reds a slim edge in the relief department...
...this is the first day of the convention and the delegates are excited: waving flags, crying "hear! hear!", reveling in a pale imitation of the pageantry of a real national convention. 'Register Kissinger not Firearms,' 'The Rock Owns a Piece of Me,' and 'Don't Re-elect Anybody' bumper stickers; dead-babies' ingarbage-cans armbands; plastic gold noose lapel pins (for 'Public Officials convicted for treason'); pistol tie clips...