Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agreement that Carter had pinned down the solid majority support of most elements of the old New Deal coalition: union members, big-city residents, the young, low-income earners, blacks, Jews, Southerners (though his own late polls showed some slippage there). Only the Catholic vote was in serious doubt. Ford, by contrast, had similarly gained a solid lead among independent voters, the college-educated, suburbanites, white-collar workers, professional and managerial types. Once that breakdown would have meant a Democratic victory; no longer. According to Harris, where the old coalition accounted for just over 60% of the potential voters when...
...most analysts see it, that could mean a narrow Ford triumph. As a result, while Ford was expected to make a pro forma appeal for all Americans to vote, his forces were more selectively keying their telephone banks and other get-out-the-vote drives to his areas of known strength. Even if the turnout is in the low 50% range, Carter could win a thin popular-vote edge but lose in the Electoral College. More probably, how ever, this would enable Carter to hold a slim popular-vote margin that could translate into a substantial electoral victory...
...Ford until the past ten days had hoarded the campaign funds allocated under the new financing law by staying in the White House for so long. His strategists felt he had been more effective campaigning from a more "presidential" stance. They were also convinced that the money could be better spent on a final, all-out TV and radio blitz aimed at many of the same large states that Carter was emphasizing...
...Ford plunged into those states, his camp aired half-hour regional shows in which film clips of his final noisy rallies were juxtaposed with quiet, informal chats between the President and ebullient Sportscaster Joe Garagiola. "How many leaders have you dealt with, Mr. President?" asks genial Joe. "One hundred and twenty-four leaders of countries around the world, Joe," replies the President. Despite reports that Carter had far less money left than Ford and would not be able to match the President's TV onslaught, the Georgian's aides had paid for their final TV and radio time weeks...
...really tight election, any last-minute gaffe by one candidate, any below-the-belt blow by another could prove decisive. When Ford ads portraying three citizens from Georgia criticizing Carter were attacked as unfair and negative, his managers stopped running them. Ford tried to capitalize on Carter's ill-advised statement that American troops should never be used to check any possible invasion of Yugoslavia by the Soviet Union in a post-Tito period. Carter had made the statement before, but none of the newsmen covering him had made a big issue of it until keen-witted Columnist Joseph Kraft...