Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drift to Ford was abruptly stalled by his Polish remark. Said Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, an Illinois Democrat: "There was a revulsion on the part of people, many of whom still send clothes over there and go there two weeks every summer." Added Terry Gabinski. a Democratic alderman in Chicago: "Everywhere I go, I hear people talking about Carter being proabortion. Now I hear people saying they just can't believe the President said what he did." Invited to speak at a long-scheduled Polish American Congress dinner in Chicago last week. Bishop Alfred L. Abramowicz agonized over whether...
...election may be near, but the race is far from over. Democrat Jimmy Carter has edged back in front of President Ford, but only slightly. The number of voters who are still undecided, or who are supporting candidates only with serious reservations, is amazingly large: roughly...
...expected, the exchanges in Houston's starkly modern Alley Theater introduced no new themes into the campaign. But the strongly liberal Democrat and the strongly conservative Republican did deal sharply, if too simplistically, with the basic issues of the election. There were even touches of humor as Dole got off some typical one-liners. He was induced to run for the vice presidency, he deadpanned at the start, because the job involved "indoor work and no heavy lifting...
Probably the greatest gaffe of the evening-one that might have given Mondale an ultimate edge-was Dole's ill-considered remark that World War I, World War II, the Korean War and Viet Nam were all "Democrat wars" that killed 1.6 million Americans. Retorted Mondale: "I think Senator Dole has richly earned his reputation as a hatchet man tonight. Does he really mean to suggest that there was a partisan difference over our involvement... to fight Nazi Germany...
Little Town. In the absence of comedy from their leaders, the vice-presidential candidates make small jabs -and oversized targets. Jimmy Carter announced during the Democratic Convention that the Lord would make his preference for running mate known to Carter in a vision, spoofs Mark Russell, and Walter Mondale "snuck into Carter's bedroom at 3 o'clock in the morning covered with luminous paint." The Minnesota Senator, who complains that people used to think Mondale was "a little town near Pasadena," said recently that "if Ford is going to talk to us about jobs, inflation and housing...