Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discipline, waning in the mid-'60s, had its last hurrah at the 1968 Democratic Convention, where the barons forced the nomination of Hubert Humphrey. That provoked a spasm of reform that had stunning (and debilitating) success. The first in a series of party commissions radically altered the rules in favor of "open democracy." Increasingly, delegates chosen by primary or caucus would be bound to actual candidates rather than to party leaders who might use them in brokerage. Though the movement was a Democratic invention, Republicans were also affected because many changes were imposed by Democratic legislatures...
...like the next President to "follow different policies" from the Reagan Administration's, compared with 39% who would stay on the same course. Nationally, Republican voters prefer the status quo over change by 58% to 32%. Iowa Democrats also display a marked contrast to voters nationwide: in Iowa, 93% favor a change from the Reagan era, against 77% nationally...
...environment and help for the homeless. Similarly, majorities in both parties say they are willing to pay higher taxes to finance bigger social programs. % But despite their reputation for liberal views, Iowans are less likely to support big-buck programs. Among Democrats, for instance, 73% in Iowa favor larger Government subsidies for education; nationally, the figure...
Iowans are even less enthusiastic than voters elsewhere about federal assistance to farmers, despite the state's agricultural base. Some 55% of Republicans at large favor increased aid, vs. 48% in Iowa. Among Democrats, support for an increase drops from 72% nationwide to 58% in Iowa. The state's long, intimate experience with federal programs that fail...
Iowans are far more dovish on defense and foreign policy. Asked if military appropriations should be increased, decreased or kept the same, Republicans nationally divide 30% for higher spending, 23% for less and 45% for no change. But in Iowa, only 19% of Republicans favor more defense, and 36% want less. Democrats nationwide split roughly by thirds on the same question; in Iowa, half the Democrats support a cut in Pentagon spending, and only 15% prefer an increase. Asked if they favor or oppose U.S. aid to the contras in Nicaragua, Republicans nationally support the program, 54% to 32%; Iowa...