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...Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics, said he thinks the October 7 debate between President Reagan and Walter F. Mondale and last Thursday's vice presidential candidate debate have helped arouse political activism on campus. Morre said the debates made Mondale supporters more confident and also put GOP followers on the defensive...
Even though the economic development and private sector job creation intents of these programs appear to be in line with the Administration's philosophy, Republican mayors were unable to win endorsement of it from the platform committee at the August national convention of the GOP. Indeed the words "city," "town," and "urban" do not appear in the 1984 Republican Platform...
...about 110 degrees all three days and dust settled over everything. Air conditioning at the Republican convention made the place pleasantly chilly--some delegates even protested that the hall was too cold. The press was treated to free food, such as shrimp salad lunches and drinks by the GOP, while they could buy a plate of rice and beans at Tent City. The Republicans provided free phones, typewriters, tv's and work areas, while there was a bank of pay phones atop a steep hill at Tent City...
Earlier in the century, the state was heavily Republican, voting for the GOP through 1928. In 1924, the state offered up the Republican's Republican. Calvin Coolidge. As the largely Irish Democrats gained strength from the first Irish Catholic Presidential candidate, Al Smith in 1928, and the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the two parties fought to a stalemate in the state through the fifties...
...Reagan. "Republican certainly aren't expecting to make significant inroads into the Black community, where Reagan's standing is at about the worst it could possibly be. A recent Gallup poll shows that only 10 percent of the Black community approved of the way Reagan is preferring his. But GOP operatives think that they gain some new votes from groups. The Hispanic Asian Americans evangelical Christians and people in the armed forces...