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Offered such a host of plans and proposals, a certain number of voters will respond by not responding. "People are going to vote with their feet by not going to the polls," asserts Caddell, who anticipates an alltime low turnout. Others will focus all their attention on a single issue. Former President Gerald Ford, for one, worries that single-issue interest groups ? for and against abortion or gun-control or environmental regulations, etc.? will increasingly determine election outcomes. He told TIME Chicago Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate that such groups pose "dangerous ramifications for the two-party system." Business...
...decreased spending on fighting crime. A slim margin favored increased spending on defense and transportation. The only areas where a large majority of voters advocated cuts were in welfare and foreign aid. Just over 50% said that welfare spending was too high, whereas only 25% said it was too low. Although the U.S. now spends a smaller percentage of its G.N.P. on foreign aid than almost any other industrialized country, a significant 72% still considered that it was too much, and only 4% said it was too little...
...volatility of public opinion is apparent in the large shifts in the people's overall impression of Carter. Shortly after he took office, 48% said their opinion of Carter had improved, compared with 6% who said it had worsened. At one of his low points, last June, only 11% said their opinion of him had improved since he took office, while 37% said they thought less of him. Now 21% feel better about him and only 26% feel worse...
...nation's taxes). But Carter found the House bill's overall total of $16.3 billion in tax cuts acceptable. By contrast, the tax-relief distribution in the Senate bill was more to Carter's liking; it included a slightly better break for middle-and low-income families. But Carter objected strenuously to the Senate's inclusion of tuition credits and the Nunn amendment, and to the $29.3 billion size of the slash, which he feared would fuel inflation...
Thus the struggle became a complex triangular fight between the House, Senate and President. The reasoning at the White House was that Carter would take his stand on holding down the budget deficit, fighting inflation and limiting the tax cut. In a low-key, candid meeting with the Senate's Russell Long and House...