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...first went to Washington in 1949 has been the revision in the relationship between the presidency and the Congress. Immediately after World War II the presidency was at a peak; the Congress was very responsive, especially in foreign policy. Today a President really does not have the kind of clout with the Congress that he had 30 years ago, even in matters that affect national security. There is not the kind of teamwork that existed in the '50s, even if the President and a majority of the Congress belong to the same party...
Underclassmen without impressive salaries, however, carry little clout with the nationally accepted credit-card companies. Yet some retail stores (Sears, for example) don't have minimum-income requirements. "The only real provision is an adequate income--not necessarily a job--to make payments," Stealy says...
Indeed, a lot of Democratic party members probably would have preferred that Dixon not run for the Senate--a Washington politician doesn't have that much clout. Not only are Democrats likely to lose the jobs under the secretary of state's office (despite the merit system), they are probably losing one of the few Democrats popular enough statewide to challenge Thompson in 1982. With the party itself weakened by internal squabbling in Chicago between Mayor Jane Byrne and State Sen. Richard Daley, Dixon's timing seems less that stellar...
Regional primaries: Though few professors endorse it, most call this oft-heard suggestion a promising possibility. By limiting primaries to four days of the campaign, this regional system would shorten the primary season, reduce the clout of early primaries like New Hampshire's, and give greater hope to potential candidates already holding elective office because less campaigning time presumably would be needed. Unless otherwise amended, though, a system of regional primaries would not increase the influence of party officials--which most analysts see as crucial. Still, the proposal is far more popular than the one-day national primary concept, which...
Gone was the influence of Daleyesque bosses replaced by a system of nearly three dozen binding presidential primaries. Gone was the clout of conservative monied interests, crippled by new campaign finance legislation promising matching funds to candidates who spurned huge private donations. And gone was the unpredictability and inequity of a system featuring the twin evils of winner-take-all-primaries and a brokered convention--a system that had produced tainted nominations in both parties...