Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They call Lorain (pop. 80,000 plus, depending on whether you believe the U.S. Census Bureau) a "steel town," like scores of small towns in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania--the industrial heartland. The ships come in from the lake to dock, but most travellers drive straight through, headed for Cleveland or Toledo and maybe Detroit. The biggest steel pipe plant in the country--"U.S. Steel. The Real Threat is From Foreign Steel" say the signs at the Grove St. entrance--dominates the southern half of town, stretching across the shores of Lake Erie in a spot close to where...
Debates in Tehran and Cleveland bring the campaign to a climax
...tours, charge and countercharge seemed little more than an arduous overture to the possibility that Iran would decide to release the 52 American hostages, and to the reality of the face-to-face TV confrontation this week between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. How the debates in Tehran and Cleveland are decided could fulfill the dreams of one candidate while shattering those of the other-or, possibly, result in inconclusive dithering...
Thus both men approached the showdown on TV with the caution the situation deserved. Their aides wrangled for hours last week before settling on Cleveland on the night of Oct. 28 as offered by the League of Women Voters. At one point Carter's camp proposed a debate on Oct. 26, the day the Iranian parliament had scheduled to discuss the hostages. The Reaganites refused because, as Campaign Aide James Baker candidly explained, "One thing we did not want was an announcement about the hostages by the President Sunday night during the debate." The later in the week, Reagan...
Philadelphia 119, Cleveland...