Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the Pennsylvania prediction, redeyed volunteers handed out "Re-elect Jimmy Carter" posters to all who would accept them and the band struck up "Georgia on My Mind...
Declaring that his campaign had been the "renaissance of his life." Anderson was in tremendous spirits as he addressed the independent crowd, promising support for President-elect Ronald Reagan, though vowing never to end his goal of bringing a "new realism" to American politics...
...with the system. One can imagine what would happen if Abraham Lincoln appeared and tried to give a Cooper Union address to the American people. There wouldn't be anyone there to listen." Others, like Verba, note that "it's traditional to lament the fact that we don't elect good people...
...states before he stopped counting three months ago. He has seen two of his portable computer terminals, for filing stories back to New York, go up in smoke. But Barrett remains stoic. Says he: "Come Nov. 4,1 have a fifty-fifty chance of knowing the President-elect better than most people know their next-door neighbors...
...vote for Anderson, says Blank, "is essentially a rebuke to the two parties." Still, he is troubled. He fears that votes for Anderson will elect Reagan. Says Blank: "I guess I'm counting on the fact that the Government will be too paralyzed to be dangerous under Reagan. I think it's horrible that we're put in the position that whatever we do we feel we're making the wrong decision...