Word: contrasts
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...pollsters had predicted. According to preliminary estimates, some 80 million Americans, or under 54% of the 150 million voting-age citizens in the U.S., took the trouble to step into balloting booths. The turnout in 1972, when the outcome was a foregone conclusion, was 55%. By contrast, 91% of the electorate recently cast ballots in West Germany and 90% in Sweden...
...Carter had pinned down the solid majority support of most elements of the old New Deal coalition: union members, big-city residents, the young, low-income earners, blacks, Jews, Southerners (though his own late polls showed some slippage there). Only the Catholic vote was in serious doubt. Ford, by contrast, had similarly gained a solid lead among independent voters, the college-educated, suburbanites, white-collar workers, professional and managerial types. Once that breakdown would have meant a Democratic victory; no longer. According to Harris, where the old coalition accounted for just over 60% of the potential voters when F.D.R. rode...
Drinan said he will concentrate heavily on international affairs in the next two years, in contrast to his focusing in the past on domestic issues...
...make it clear that if there is ever a conflict, I will go for beauty, clean air, water and landscape." According to Lewis Regenstein, executive vice president of the Fund for Animals, "Carter has taken a stronger stand [on environmental issues] than any other candidate in modern times." In contrast to Ford, Carter favors a federal role in long-range land-use planning, tougher controls on air and water pollution and a bill that would "require reclamation of the land as a condition of strip mining." One of Carter's villains is the U.S. Army's Corps...
...will be focusing their decisions. The voters, Yankelovich suggests, are essentially satisfied with their judgment of Gerald Ford as a man of openness, decency, honesty and straight-forwardness. While it is not clear that this judgment will play a key role in the voters' decision, it stands in sharp contrast to their perception of Jimmy Carter as a man of mystery, even after the two months of post-Labor Day campaigning...