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...shocked public reaction they expect, but their arguments are truly too simple-minded to earn it. Critic Benjamin DeMott, professor of English at Amherst, feels that outrage is not the proper response to what might be called the pro-incest lobby. Says he: "These voices cry out loudest for pity...
...With only two days of preparation, aides last week organized a rally for him in Pittsburgh attended by 10,000 people-the biggest turnout of his campaign and far larger than the crowd that greeted the Steelers after they won this year's Super Bowl. Kennedy drew his loudest reaction when he called on Carter to leave the Rose Garden and campaign actively. Said the Senator: "You've got to come out and face the American people...
...process, though, everything is going to be in jeopardy," says one Carter strategist. The budget resolutions merely set a target; congressional committees can and often do vote more money for specific programs than the budget resolutions allow. It is to the appropriations committees that lobbyists probably will make their loudest cries of anguish...
...Reagan does very little handshaking; his standard appearance is a short speech followed by a question-and-answer session. With the actor in him again coming out, he loves to roll words around and test out lines, noting and then repeating at the next stop whichever ones get the loudest laughs or applause. At the end of the New Hampshire campaign, he could feel affection flowing from the crowds, and he responded exuberantly. His last appearance before the vote was a classic campaign scene: a crowd of 300 gathered inside the white clapboard town hall in New Boston...
There appears to be less fuel for partisan wrangling in 1980 than in most presidential election years, however. The loudest fights usually come over domestic policy, and that is not what is preoccupying this Congress; its mind is on foreign affairs and defense. Says Tip O'Neill: "I think the mood out there is that we have to be prepared for conventional skirmishes, and the American people feel for the first time that we do not have that capability. I'm talking about the safety of the country, and you put that ahead of energy, inflation, balancing...