Word: disaffectedness
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> The huge number of voters who had told pollsters that they were undecided evidently broke decidedly for Reagan, thus confounding the conventional wisdom that disaffected Democrats in the end would "come home" to their party.
Before the campaign was, in effect, suspended for debate preparations, the momentum had seemed to be moving toward Carter, although Richard Wirthlin, Reagan's pollster, claimed his man actually was 6 points ahead as the week began. The President was benefiting from a variety of trends, including reluctant decisions...
The presidential campaign seemed drifting, confused, even as the pace of travel, speeches, TV pitches and endorsements quickened. Republican Ronald Reagan was still ahead, but he was not pulling away. His aides fretted about the tendency of undecided voters to place their bets on a past winner as the race...
This week each campaign will try new strategies to get their messages across more forcefully to a restless and often disaffected public. On Sunday, Carter started a series of 20-minute radio speeches, the first focusing on the economy, and the G.O.P. challenger initiated a series of nationally televised Reagan...
Jerry S. Fortinsky '83, Anderson's Harvard coordinator and a Democrat, said yesterday that more than half of Anderson's campus workers are disaffected Democrats. He added that he expects even more rank-and-file Kennedy workers to join the independent, but said he believes many are "exhausted from the...