Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale's aides regard Ferraro, despite her liberalism and Queens accent, as a woman for all regions who can appeal to every type of voter. Blue-collar, urban ethnic voters, especially Roman Catholics, will listen to her, they think, because she is one of them: the Catholic daughter of an Italian immigrant who represents a conservative blue-collar district. Well-educated suburbanites may be attracted to her as a symbol of new ideas and new departures in politics, even though her voting record in the House followed a rather traditional liberal Democratic line. Democrats hope she will win voters...
...CADDELL. The Democratic Party is two parties. There is the blue-collar, minority, older, New Deal coalition, vs. younger, better educated, more independent, more moderate liberals. The younger voters tend to be skeptical of the New Deal, Big Government programs, more conservative on economic issues but more liberal on cultural matters. The leadership of the Democratic Party is having real difficulties understanding that the second part of the party really exists...
...mate, Geraldine Ferraro doesn't balance the ticket philosophically, being liberal, pro-union and all, but it may help that she is Catholic, urban and ethnic, though that might hurt the Southern strategy. A sort of Sunbelt-Frostbelt standoff, if you get the drift, complicated by the blue-collar factor. Of course, the gender gap is the key to everything: more women, more votes. Got it. But wasn't something else involved in Mondale's decision to propose a woman for Vice President of the United States? Or did we only imagine that the nation whooped, quaked...
...next in line of succession to the White House. Ronald Reagan will be a formidable campaign foe. But the point was, no one could be sure; a thousand calculations?the effect of a woman national candidate on the female vote, the male vote, the South, the West, urban blue-collar workers, Black and Hispanic voters?have to be done for the very first time. And assuredly not for the last time; those calculations enter into the making of every presidential election ticket from...
...family endured with good humor and pride. They did not feel neglected. Though her district is mostly blue-collar, Ferraro lives in an upper-middle-class enclave in Forest Hills. Her husband's successful real estate business helps pay for a winter retreat in St. Croix and a summer house on Fire Island. For the children (Laura, 18, about to enter Brown; John Jr., 20, a student at Middlebury College, and Donna, 22, a Financial Analyst on Wall Street) there were expensive educations. A full-time housekeeper does the cooking and cleaning. When a photographer asked Ferraro to pose...