Word: clymer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strongest effect of these polls is to financial contributions," says Adam J. Clymer '58, assistant to the executive editor in charge of polling at The New York Times. "The people who give money are not the average voters, and they want to be winners...
During the 1976 presidential campaign, Jimmy Carter did not receive ample contributions to promote a viable campaign until he made a huge jump in the national polls, Clymer adds...
...primary there is a tendency not to "waste votes," Clymer says. Some may gain comfort in casting "symbolic votes"--ones for candidates whose ideas the voter agrees with but who have no chance of winning. "But others could say, 'I should vote for the guy I like second best because my guy has no shot, and I don't want my least favorite candidate to win,'" Clymer says...
...permit more) pay $75 each for the privilege of stuffing intent-to-purchase chips into the cake boxes. Then names of lucky purchasers are drawn out of the boxes, sometimes from among several hundred chips. The expensive works tend to attract the most chips. Tonight John Clymer, an old Saturday Evening Post cover artist, has a painting priced at $80,000. So does his colleague, Tom Lovell, another successful illustrator in the old days...
...Cronkite fielded dozens of calls from people eager to talk with the popular anchorman. One fan claimed he was Cronkite's close friend; he had once written away for an autographed photo of the newsman. Kenneth Mueller, the mayor of Harlan (pop. 5,300), arranged to meet Adam Clymer, a national political reporter for the New York Times. Clymer showed up wearing enough plastic and paper ID cards, press passes and Secret Service credentials around his neck to gain entry to the Oval Office. Says the mayor wryly: "He looked so important, I felt I should get down...