Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense Carter had won in a year in which nearly any respectable Democrat should have triumphed. While Gerald Ford could hardly be held accountable, the Republicans had presided over a lingering end to the Viet Nam War, had both produced and been victimized by the nation's worst political scandal, had seen their party's President and Vice President resign in disgrace, and had held office during the deepest postwar recession. Ford had pardoned the man who appointed...
Carter won because a majority of the voters wanted a Democrat in the White House after eight years of Republican Administration. But the election was close largely because so many voters were worried about taking a chance on Carter. After all of the national debates, after all the articles about his life and policies, the people still felt that there was some unexposed dimension about him. Says Public Opinion Analyst Daniel Yankelovich: "In the preWatergate, pre-Viet Nam era, the people were more willing to take a chance. Now they have indeed taken that chance, but by the slimmest...
...moved from House to Senate (Iowa Democrat John Culver) and another became Governor of California (Democrat Jerry Brown). This year three are aiming at governorships (Delaware Republican Pierre S. du Pont IV, Illinois Republican James Thompson, West Virginia Democrat John D. Rockefeller IV). All three are favored. Seven seek Senate seats: Indiana Republican Richard Lugar, former mayor of Indianapolis; Maryland's Democratic Congressman Paul Sarbanes; Michigan's Democratic Congressman Donald Riegle; Missouri's Republican Attorney General John Danforth; Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman H. John Heinz III; Texas' Republican Congressman Alan Steelman; Vermont's Democratic...
...pause, and we get more worried every day. This shortfall is just one more worry " It is sure to strengthen the hand of liberal economists who believe Congress should act early next year to give the economy another boost, probably a tax cut Brookings Institution Economist Arthur Okun, a Democrat and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers bristled over the shortfall and called the original budget figures a "serious overestimate." Said he: "I think if Congress had recognized that spending was going to be down that substantially, there would have been an additional...
...seen. One guess: not much. Deputy OMB Director Paul O'Neill doubts that there will be any "bubble effect" and predicts that overall spending for the current fiscal year, which ends next Sept 30, will be no higher than the $413 billion Congress has agreed to. Advisers to Democrat Jimmy Carter think that will not be enough to counteract the shortfall. TIME has learned that several of his economists are recommending tax cuts or new federal spending for early next year, should their man win-a tack encouraged in part by the Republican underspending...