Word: conventioners
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Earlier this month, Geraldine Ferraro spoke contemptuously of Reagan's "selfconscious patriotism that's made on Madison Avenue." But the Democrats also are scrambling to embrace the potent symbolism of red-white-and-blue traditionalism. As Ferraro and Mondale paraded down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on Labor...
In Reagan's campaign advertising, the theme of renewed national confidence is sounded more subtly and soothingly. "Americans are like any people," suggests Sociologist Lipset. "When they go to the doctor, no matter what is wrong with them, they want the doctor to tell them they're O.K...
But with his natural reserve and sometimes phlegmatic manner, Mondale seems ill equipped to drive the inspirational message home Democratic Strategist Robert Strauss says that his man's empathy is not transmitted well on TV. "When you get past the show-biz part of it and talk about family...
During the emotional week, two Catholics who are Democratic officeholders, New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, sought to cool passions with a well-reasoned defense of their own-and by implication, Ferraro's-refusal to seek laws that would impose Catholic moral positions on all...
The assault on Ferraro seemed almost gratuitous. Before addressing a pro-life convention in Altoona, Pa., New York Archbishop John J. O'Connor told reporters that Ferraro had "said some things about abortion relative to Catholic teaching which are not true." He did not immediately explain just what Ferraro...