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Nonetheless, as the campaign entered its final week, most polls showed that the Conservatives' lead over Prime Minister James Callaghan's Labor Party had dropped from 20% or more to less than 6%. At week's end yet another poll by Market and Opinion Research International (MORI) indicated that the Tory margin had shrunk to a bare 3%; a 6% lead might translate into a majority of 30 seats or more, but the MORI sampling of voters suggested that this Thursday's election had become too close to call. Beyond that, other polls indicated that Callaghan...
...sharp contrast to Thatcher's colorful road show, "Sunny Jim" Callaghan was waging a rather low-keyed, traditional campaign, appearing frequently at poorly attended rallies on behalf of Labor candidates for Parliament. Callaghan and his aides traveled without fanfare on an executive jet, leaving the press to catch up as best it could on whatever planes and trains were available. As a result, he was getting less national attention than the Tory leader...
Although he carefully refrained from personal attacks on Thatcher, Callaghan time and again put forward the warning that a Tory victory would mean more hardship for the average family, more privileges for the rich. "The welfare, the prosperity, the jobs and the care of older people depend upon a Labor majority," he told a partisan crowd of 70 people in the Lancashire town of Rawtenstall last week. Responding to Thatcher's tough stand on union abuses, he charged that Tory plans for legal reforms in industrial relations could lead to a disastrous conflict of views between the unions...
...willing to predict assuredly that she would become Britain's first woman Prime Minister. There were simply too many imponderables. One unanswered question was whether the unions were in such bad grace with the majority of voters that the open support of bosses like Evans and Weighell for Callaghan would tip the crucial swing vote in favor of the Tories. The country's rapidly growing and increasingly restive black and Asian population could be a significant factor, even though less than half of eligible minority voters had bothered to register. Since Thatcher has publicly called for more restrictions...
...budge." Encouraged, Owen crosses the street and this time runs into a fervent working-class Tory. Robert Mason, 78, a retired stained-glass cutter, is ill with bronchitis, and Owen goes to his bedside. "You'd do better to go back to doctoring," Mason says. "I don't think Callaghan is any good for the country...