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...first, a slim figure proceeding to the dais through a darkened Madison Square Garden. Jimmy Carter was about to give a speech crucial to his hopes for staying in the White House. Not since Harry Truman had a President received such a grudging, unenthusiastic nomination from a Democratic Convention???and Carter was starting from an even lower rating in the polls than Truman had carried into that campaign of 1948. The President had to set both a tone and a theme for his own uphill race, and he had to do it immediately...
...approach just might work. Even Reagan's own strategists do not expect his big lead in the public opinion polls ?28 points just after the Republican Convention???to last for long. Indeed, they would not be surprised to see it cut in half by Labor Day. Pat Caddell, Carter's pollster, told TIME editors at lunch last week that "we may come out of this convention less than ten points behind, and I would prefer to come out ten to 15 points down?far enough down where we are clearly the underdog and Reagan is clearly...
...Republican right wing that loyally supported Reagan was very much in control of the Detroit convention???of its machinery, its rules and its platform. The Sunbelt's polyester suits and white cowboy hats and STOP ERA buttons far outnumbered the striped ties and horn-rimmed glasses of the Northeast. Recognizing that there was no way to wrest back the control that had once been theirs, the moderates simply sat back and watched the show. Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte, a liberal firebrand on the platform committee at five previous conventions, backed out of serving on the panel this year. Said...
...delegates?80% of them were attending their first convention???displayed a perseverance that astonished convention veterans. They paid attention to issues, argued them, voted and moved on. When the session ended at 6:24 a.m., it was the longest in the nation's convention history...
March Marshals. The last thing the New Mobe leaders had wanted was violence. Unlike the 1967 march on the Pentagon and the demonstrations at the 1968 Chicago convention???both led by some of those now active in the New Mobe?civil disobedience was explicitly excluded from the advance plans. Further, leaders such as Pacifist David Dellinger, 54, Sociology Professor Sidney Peck, 42, and Economics Professor Douglas Dowd, 50, had sought out younger radical chiefs for assurances that there would be no provocation of the police or the military personnel assembled in Washington...