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...predicted that the Democrats would pick up seats in Congress because "there is obvious economic distress in the country." The election will serve as a referendum on President Reagan, he said...
...deduced from a Yankelovich, Skelly & White poll for TIME, is that troubled voters are skeptical about accepting either view as gospel, but on balance the results are worrisome for Republicans. While most voters still absolve Reagan of responsibility for the nation's economic distress, they are not so indulgent toward his party...
Reagan did tone down his rhetoric. He did not even use the words Republican and Democrat, and he asserted that "there's plenty of blame to go around" for economic distress. He sought to project an image of sober concern, stating that " the dark cloud of unemployment hangs over the lives of 11 million of our friends, neighbors and family...
...investigators' chilling theory: the murderer had driven along 53, turned off at randomly selected points and placed one bottle of poisoned capsules in each store, to be bought by the next or third or 15th man, woman or child who walked in seeking relief from minor distress...
...figure held more political than economic portent. After all 10.1% was a far cry from the depths of the Depression; in 1933, 24.9% of the labor force was out of work. But as a political rallying point, 10% is a memorably round number, a bench mark of national economic distress that Democrats hope and Republicans fear might turn voters agains the G.O.P. in the elections...