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Many people subscribe to neither theory. "I don't think that people vote for the loser because of polls," says Michael Barone '68, formerly vice-president of a private polling agency and now a Washington Post editorial writer. But "the ordinary voter does not get a huge charge from being on the winning team," Barone adds...
...most familiar supernumerary fee is for the replacement of an I.D. card--$25. Shame on you if you're a three-time loser, then it's $50. As a lot of people lose their I.D.'s at least once in four years, this particular regulation seems worth examining...
...counting on an all but solid West and South, with the possible exception of Texas, to give Reagan a long head start toward winning the 270 electoral votes necessary for a second term. Right now they can identify only four states in which Reagan looks like a probable loser: Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota and West Virginia. In the other 46 states he seems to have a solid chance...
Actually, there was no clear winner or loser-unless, as some leading Democrats lamented, it was President Reagan. The debate, sponsored by the House Democratic Caucus, was held on the snow-covered New Hampshire campus of Dartmouth College. For the first 1 Vi hours, all the candidates responded to the evenhanded questioning of ABC Newsman Ted Koppel (see PRESS) with measured campaign statements. In the second 1½ hours, most were goaded into sharper exchanges by Donahue, who hopped about with his microphone soliciting questions from the audience and throwing in some zingers...
...Providence goalie Mario Proulx left the rink a loser, the victim of Grant Blair's fourth collegiate shutout...