Word: democratically
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...final sampling for TIME, completed Oct. 19, Pollster Daniel Yankelovich found Jimmy Carter ahead of Gerald Ford, 45% to 42%. That lead was precisely the margin by which the Democrat, according to nearly complete returns, won the popular vote (51% to 48%). George Gallup continued polling until three days before the election and gave Ford an edge of 47% to 46%. Louis Harris wound up a day later and found Carter ahead by 46% to 45%. Given the standard 3 point margin for error, all three polling organizations did well in detecting a close race...
...their final soundings, both Gallup and Harris termed the election too close to call. Each had given Carter a lead of 30 or so points immediately after the Democratic National Convention in July, and each had traced the steady-and inevitable-erosion of that lead. Yankelovich did not poll immediately after the Democratic Convention, when Ford had not yet been chosen, and consequently never found more than a 10-point lead for the Democrat. Nonetheless, he too picked up the falling-off to a dead heat but also registered Carter's rebounding to the 3% lead...
...only proper action. Los Angeles Attorney Linda Abrams, 26, has been pasting stickers on her private letters that read: DON'T VOTE-IT ONLY ENCOURAGES THEM. A Phi Beta Kappa from U.C.L.A., Linda said, "The only way I would vote now would be if there were four categories: Democrat, Republican, No Preference and Abolish This Office...
Missouri's attorney general John C. Danforth, 40, easily won the U.S. Senate seat long held by Democrat Stuart Symington; by the size of his victory, Danforth almost automatically becomes a G.O.P. force to be reckoned with. So does Illinois' new Governor James R. ("Big Jim") Thompson, 40, the tough prosecutor who swamped the hand-picked nominee of the Daley machine...
...Republicans may also cast an eye toward Texas, where former Governor John Connally, 59, the backslid Democrat, has his eyes on 1980. A spellbinding speaker who looks as well as talks like a President (at least a Texas-style President), he stumped the Lone-Star State with Ford and traveled nationwide on behalf of his new party's congressional candidates. Big John has many assets, including an idea (usually conservative) to match almost every problem and plenty of free time and money. But Ford's loss of Texas, on top of Connally's old wheeler-dealer reputation...