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Geraldine Ferraro appears to have hurt Mondale at the polls more than she helped him, even with women. Overall, 16% of those polled by NBC said they were more likely to vote Democratic because of her, while 26% said they were less likely; the rest said she made no difference. Among women, 24% said her presence on the ticket made them less likely to vote Democratic, 19% more likely. Roman Catholics chose Reagan by 56% to 44%; in 1980, Reagan took the Catholic vote by only 47% to 43%. Republican strategists believe Ferraro, a Catholic, lost votes by tangling with...
...rose to his greatest challenge by doing well in his debate with Ferraro. "I was talking facts; she was talking emotion," he boasted afterward. Actually, Bush was far more keyed up than the normally voluble Ferraro, who adopted a measured, almost subdued tone. Bush nearly squandered his debate performance, however, by refusing to back away from his erroneous assertion that his Democratic opponents had said that American Marines killed by terrorists in Beirut had "died in shame." He was overheard claiming that he had "tried to kick a little ass" in the debate, then made light of the gaffe, apparently...
Reagan's stand-tall image also held appeal. When Geraldine Ferraro asked workers in a Belvidere, Ill., Chrysler plant why they planned to vote for Reagan, they said they feared Mondale would reinstate the anemic foreign policy of the Carter Administration. Says Fraser: "The macho factor was important...
...opinion molders and political strategists who have been so influential for so long are obviously at odds with ordinary people. The Democratic Party's frustration with its rank and file was evident when Geraldine Ferraro went before autoworkers and students in the Midwest and West and became almost accusatory in her professed bafflement over why they preferred Reagan. Ferraro's tone suggested that she viewed her listeners as hapless innocents beguiled by a pitchman into breaking their longstanding contract with the Democrats. Ferraro had discovered the world beyond the Hudson and Potomac rivers...
...then at the Democratic Convention in San Francisco, Jackson made his cause clear. The morning after his stunning speech of conciliation and redemption, he spoke to the Black Caucus. "Women got what they want," he said, "in Geraldine Ferraro; the South got what it wants in Bert Lance. What did you get?-you ain't got nothing!" He made his demands sharp: that the Democratic Party in the South establish in each of the old Confederate states one distinct district where a black Congressman would be nominated and, with the support of the party, be elected. In other words...