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...Democrats are offering no alternatives, the Republicans will do well. But many strategists were saying last week that they sense a Republican Waterloo, with blue-collar workers joining the jobless and the worried in returning to the Democratic fold. "The fear factor is still there," says Representative Tony Coelho of California, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "It's there with those who fear their job is next." Says Nancy Sinnott of the National Republican Congressional Committee: "Unemployment may be hurting us more than we thought...
...Reaganomics is the issue between now and November," says Congressman Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Richard Bond of the Republican National Committee concurs: "This election will measure the President's popularity and the continued acceptance of his economic agenda...
...least one prominent Democrat admits that this line might indeed lessen the large gains in congressional representation that his party had hoped to win. Says Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: "Now there is a psychological uplift to those who are not unemployed or facing bankruptcy. If the psychology of fear is reversed, then people will listen to the Republican message. We will still pick up seats, but not as many." Most estimates, including Coelho's, cluster around a Democratic gain often to 15 seats in the House, not particularly impressive for the opposition party...
...Edwin Steffe's real-life counterpart, complain that the Republicans and their New York agency (Korey, Kay & Partners) have stretched the bounds of truth too far even for a political advertisement. Harrumphs O'Neill: "Better for whom? It's only better for the wealthy." Congressman Tony Coelho of California, chairman of the House Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, correctly points out that the current recession began six months after Reagan took office. The Democrats, who do not have the money for a similar campaign of their own, threatened that they may demand free time for a rebuttal...
...G.O.P. dreams are fading quickly. Michigan Congressman Guy Vander Jagt, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, still predicts that up to ten seats will shift in the G.O.P.'s favor, but Congressman Tony Coelho of California, who heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, sharply disagrees. "There's no way they're going to do that," he says. "The most they'll get is five seats, and it might even be a wash...