Word: margin
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...election campaign. As always, the contest is a patchwork of local conflicts. All 435 House seats are at stake, along with 35 Senate seats, 36 governorships and most state and local offices. Nobody expects any radical changes in party strengths: the Democrats will probably, retain their 61-vote margin in the Senate and lose only half a dozen of their 287 seats in the House, a bleak prospect for the Republicans in an off-year election. In much of the country, indeed, many key issues are purely regional ? motorboat restrictions in Minnesota's Boundary Waters canoe area, a city...
...many (45% to 22%) favored increased rather than decreased spending on education; three times as many (51% to 17%) favored more rather than less spending on health care; more than six times as many (59% to 9%) favored increased rather than 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...
...taxes, 24% said the Republicans and 23% said the Democrats, with the remainder being unsure or seeing no difference. Similarly, 29% of those polled said the Democrats would run the government more efficiently, whereas only 22% said the Republicans would. Democrats were seen by a 30%-to-24% margin as more likely to "keep the economy prosperous." Voters did not express overwhelming confidence in either party to handle the tax issue, but those who did have a preference tended to cite their own party as being best on taxes. The Democratic edge stems from its larger share of the registered...
...antitax sentiment a purely conservative trend. If voters had a choice between two candidates who expressed the same views on taxes, but one was generally perceived as a moderate and the other as a conservative, voters surveyed would tend to choose the moderate by a 47%-to-43% margin. But people do not intend to vote solely on the tax issue: only a third of those surveyed said they would switch away from an otherwise preferred candidate if he took a stand against a tax cut, less than the percentage of voters who said they would abandon a preferred candidate...
Within his own party, Carter still would not capture the presidential nomination if he were seriously challenged by Senator Edward Kennedy. According to Democrats and independents polled, Carter trails Kennedy 37% to 47%. This is a much smaller margin than the 24-point difference shown in polls this summer, but it is still impressive...