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...every trend there is a puzzling offsetting countertrend. If some national polls show the President now leading by an eyelash, many state polls show Rea gan ahead by small margins among the people most likely to vote. If Anderson backers in most states are drifting toward Carter, those in Michigan are mainly moderate Republicans who are moving to Reagan, preserving the Californian's narrow lead in that all-important state...
...have to pay more and more for what they buy, while they are limited in the income they have. I don't under stand why his [Carter's] answer to inflation was to put 2 million people out of work." In a Friday night TV speech, Rea gan pointed out that the consumer price index rose in September at a 12.7% annual rate and declared that Carter's record on inflation and unemployment "is a failure on a scale so vast, in dimensions so broad, with effects so devastating, that it is virtually without parallel in Amer...
...rising cost of food, fuel and housing along with the unemployment rate. The FSI, charged Reagan, has soared from 24.2 when Carter took office to 77 today. "Carter caused it. He tolerates it. He's going to have to answer to the American people for it." Rea gan still plans to devote much of his remaining time to five key states: Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas and Florida, which have 121 of the 270 electoral votes he needs to win. If Anderson can main tain 10% in the polls, Reagan figures he has the edge in electoral votes, however close...
...decisive events of the New Hampshire primary was the strange spectacle of an angry Ronald Rea gan confronting a flustered George Bush on the stage of the Nashua High School gym, while four other candidates jos tled behind them like hapless losers in a game of musical chairs. When the four stalked out, one of them, Representative John Anderson, summed up the group's protest: "The responsibility for this whole travesty rests with Mr. Bush." Countered Bush's New Hampshire campaign manager, Hugh Gregg, the next day: "We feel we were sandbagged...
Operating under the requirements of the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, official Washington and those who hope to become official Washington last week be gan disclosing their personal finances. Thousands more who will be required to report (nearly 11,000 earn more than the $44,756 that makes them eligible) took advantage of extensions granted by the Office of Government Ethics, set up to handle the disclosures. Among that group: President Carter and Vice President Mondale...