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Betty Wilson (not her real name) is the secretary to the president of Local 425 and she agrees with The Lorain-Elyria Journal. In 1976, when Jimmy Carter came to the shores of Lake Erie, she shook hands with him, "looked him right in the eye," and liked what looked back. Betty worked hard for Jimmy in 1976, but now she says she's "ashamed" of what she did. This year, she's hiding a Reagan button in her unionbought drawer. If the boss saw it, she whispers, he'd be awfully...
...Boss wants the boys to vote for Carter this year. But the boys are looking for rule #3. Pavlich knows that the days of a straight union vote are over. Crosstown in the Lorain Country Board of Elections, a woman who's watched the town for years knows, too. "At one time, the unions could deliver a block vote--but that doesn't work anymore. If the economy were up and they had a full pocket, they would vote Democratic...
...Republican county chairman, stop chewing his gum for just a minute and smile his Hoover smile. Zieba's been getting a lot of calls this year from Democrats, giving the gray inflatable elephant perched atop his law files a lot to smile about. "Even Eisenhower didn't carry Lorain," Zieba says, but things are looking up this year. The Puerto Ricans (almost 18 per cent of Lorain) and the Blacks are "lackadaisical voters who've put all their eggs in Carter's basket...
Joseph A. Ujhely Esq., Lorain County Democratic chieftain, head of Ohio's 1976 delegation to the Electoral College, son of a steelworker and a running guard for Ohio State, dismisses the poll as a lot of crap. The purple-and-yellow tie with the silver sheen ripples as Ujhelyi conducts an experiment to see just how far he can lean back in his chair and still see the visitor over the paunch. Each word is an effort, a patented statement issued forth from the right side of his mouth. The left seems almost hermetically sealed...
Ujhelyi figures that, in Lorain, he's just about seen it all. And he knows who's going to win. "Seventy-five per cent of the auto workers will vote for Carter." Long pause to let the tongue and teeth regroup. "We've got the edge on the Republicans because there's more of us than there are of them. It's not who's for you. It's how many." There are no windows in Ujhelyi's legal den, just a lot of pseudo-wood panelling and a deep red carpet. But Ujhelyi says he doesn't need...