Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Larger-than-life personalities are highly prized television commodities in this campaign, partly in contrast to Carter's low-keyed approach and partly because of the seemingly insoluble problems the nation faces. Kennedy used the word leadership 17 times in a recent speech in Philadelphia. On the Republican side, former Texas Governor and Nixon Treasury Secretary Connally managed to use the word five times in a 4½-minute television commercial that was aired last week across the nation on CBS at a cost...
...troublesome early start of campaign '80 is the result of the incredible burden the candidates face in having to compete for convention delegates in 36 primaries across the nation. In 1968 there were only 17 primaries, but now the need to organize in so many places, and the need to campaign personally in all sections of the country, has forced the rivals into ever earlier activity. Will the seemingly endless electioneering burn out both the workers and the voters long before next year's Election Day? In Florida, where Democrats are just recovering from the struggle over delegates...
Republican Front Runner Reagan risked the irritation of his supporters and the concerted challenge from such early entries as Connally and George Bush by delaying all serious campaigning. But now he too must enter the action. Says Reagan Campaign Manager John Sears: "Politics is motion and excitement. We must now run harder than if we were behind. Our biggest opponent is us. If we do our job right, nobody can catch...
...campaign will soon be a pitched battle among the candidates. But among the people who do the voting, the candidates will be viewed through a prism of what they seem to offer in the way of help on energy and inflation and America's place in the world. More than in any recent election, the country will be looking at the candidates skeptically, doubting their promises, almost cynical about their abilities to alter fundamentally the nation's course. Says Maine's Senator Edmund S. Muskie, himself a failed presidential candidate in 1972: "People no longer believe...
Nonetheless, the system does exist to solve problems, and it is the only system by which the nation's problems will be solved. That makes campaign '80 a contest of true importance...