Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FOUR YEARS ago, ineligible to vote in the Presidential election, I spent a week in November working in a hospital. The day before the election, few people there said they knew how they would vote. The next day, after Ronald Reagan's surprising landslide victory over Jimmy Carter, one of the heretofore faciturn doctors offered an explanation something like this, "I voted for Reagan," he said, with his head turned down a bit. "I guess I was one of the few million closet Reaganires people too embarrassed to admit before the election that we were going to vote...
...door and step out. As ever, television news--and the subtle images networks project are crucial to swaying this important chunk of the electorate. Even the slightest misstep or misstatement can smash candidacies today; commentators seized upon Reagan's "there you go again" line in 1980 to help destroy Carter's credibility. This time the talking heads are at it again, though this time the joke may be on Reagan...
...Carter Administration also studied Soviet eavesdropping and reportedly planned to add 150 special telephones to the 100 understood to then be in use by the government...
...When I see polls showing that 35% of U. A.W. workers will vote for Ronald Reagan," she said to the factory crowd of 250, "it absolutely floors me. I want to find out why." The workers were mum. At last one mentioned Carter and Iran. "O.K.," she shot back. "Have those people worried about Iran seen what's happened in Beirut recently? Are we standing tall in Lebanon with a President who doesn't take responsibility?" Ferraro kept answering and challenging. Once she showed her testy streak. A worker, complaining about welfare cheats, said he knew...
...since Jones was elected in 1972, a year that Richard Nixon carried the district over George McGovern with 79% of the vote, Jones has been able to persuade his constituents to split their tickets. In 1976 Gerald Ford carried the district with 62%, and in 1980 Reagan beat Jimmy Carter 2 to 1. "The nice thing about my district," Jones says, "is that it has always been fiercely independent...