Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Democrats also zeroed in on the issues and themes they will stress in the campaign. Speaker after speaker painted a portrait of false prosperity menaced by gargantuan budget deficits and of a fragile peace threatened by Ronald Reagan's alleged warlike proclivities. But the overriding message of the...
Mondale's planners still have not drawn up a firm list of pivotal states. Before the convention, their battle map was the reverse of Reagan's: sweep the industrial Northeast and Midwest, which have become the new Democratic heartland, then pick off a few big Western or, more...
But by the end of last week Mondale strategists were insisting that with the selection of Ferraro and the national exposure she received during the convention, all bets are off. "These overnight polls are incredible!" exclaimed Campaign Manager Robert Beckel at midday Friday as he examined charts spread out on...
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...
The Democrats began developing their line of attack at the convention. On the key issue of the economy, often decisive in U.S. elections, they are sounding two themes. One is that the drop in inflation was bought only at the price of a savage recession, succeeded by an uneven recovery...