Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national mood. If the country continues to prosper, his election chances will also improve. TIME'S State of the Nation Indicator, which measures people's confidence in America, has risen by 10% since June, to 44%. Of those who feel positive about the nation, 49% favor Ford while 37% are for Carter. If confidence in the U.S. plummets, then Carter benefits. Of those with negative feelings about the present-day U.S., 53% support the Democrat, 33% Ford...
...Only 45% of Carter's supporters are persuaded that he is the right man, and 52% have reservations. Yet the President cannot take too much comfort from this comparison, since his voters are less likely to show up at the polls. Those classified as "most likely to vote" favor Carter over Ford, 53%-37%. Moreover, 57% of all voters see Carter as the likely winner, while 34% think Ford will take...
...everyone who wants to work is supported 56%-37%. Such a majority suggests that Ford either does not have a surefire issue in his fight against inflation or has not properly explained it to the country. Another issue benefiting Carter is national health insurance; an overwhelming 61%-23% favor enactment of such a program. There is also a whopping 65%-30% majority for registration of all handguns, a position that Carter has taken and Ford has opposed...
...Nader staffer writing in the Washingtonian, charges that "the popular image of a band of 60 to 70 dedicated idealists working in happy concert with Nader is, quite simply, a fiction. When you couple Nader's incompetence as an administrator with the importance of employees remaining in his favor, you have the formula for a poisoned atmosphere." One dramatic expression of that atmosphere was the mysterious, nighttime removal of a personal diary from the office of Ted Jacobs, a high-level Nader associate, who says he was then fired by Nader for "misconduct...
...himself as an alternative to Ford or Reagan, thus diminishing his prime asset: an image as a non-politician who happens to be in politics. Buckley insisted his move was selfless -intended to prevent a first-ballot victory and permit delegates bound to a candidate whom they did not favor to vote their convictions on subsequent ballots. When a scant twelve delegates rallied to his tardily raised banner, Buckley withdrew to concentrate on his reelection race. Mused New York G.O.P. Chairman Richard Rosenbaum: "He got out just in time." Buckley stands to have trouble in November beating either Pat Moynihan...