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Carter made up for some of the Democratic losses among coalition groups by capturing nearly 50% of the white Protestant vote, compared with 30% for George McGovern in 1972 and generally higher than Democratic candidates have received in recent elections. Some of this gain obviously represents the white Baptist switch. But much of it comes from rural areas where farmers felt an affinity with their Georgia counterpart and hostility toward the Ford Administration because of the 1974 embargo on wheat sales to the Soviet Union. In Montgomery County, a rural wheat-growing area in southeastern Kansas that usually gives...
...Ford was deprived of what he most wanted in life: to gain the nation's highest office on his own, not to go down in history as an accidental President. Unprepared for defeat, Ford has no plans for the future. He has mused about taking an academic post, perhaps at his alma mater, the University of Michigan. His friends in Grand Rapids hope he will visit there often, but they realize that he is likely to remain in Washington, the city that has absorbed so much of his life and energy. He might return to law. A position...
...House of Representatives underwent some plastic surgery at the polls, emerging with a somewhat younger and more attractive look. But beneath the cosmetic changes, the House remains heavily Democratic in soul and spirit. The so-called Watergate babies generally survived, and Democrats showed a net gain of one seat (to 292, against 143 Republicans...
Bright, personable Governor Christopher ("Kit") Bond, 37, was considered a rising star of the G.O.P. and a sure bet to gain a second term. But in the biggest upset of Tuesday's gubernatorial races, he lost by less than a 1% margin to Democrat Joseph P. Teasdale, 40, a former prosecutor from Jackson County (which covers Independence and Kansas City). Known as "Walkin' Joe" after his unsuccessful trek around the state seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination four years ago, Teasdale hammered away at the Republican in debates and TV ads, painting him as a "corporate man" with ties...
...contrast, a sensible modern materialist like Richard, who takes love easy and regards sex as an urge that can be indulged without guilt or passion, seems only half alive. Love and life, in short, gain savor from a sense of sin and self-denial. The stricture against eating the apple and the sword in Tristram and Iseult's bed are both powerful sharpeners of appetite. This is not artistic news, though the observation is now unfashionable. That being so, whether Marry Me is part apologia or all fictional serrmonette, one of its points could well be dismissed...