Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidate. The Magnolia state could well do Reagan in. Its 30 delegates and 30 alternates each cast half a vote, and the majority had been leaning toward Reagan. Yet the group has not yet polled itself, and soundings by reporters in recent weeks showed Reagan's margin narrowing...
...press conference at week's end, Baker claimed publicly for the first time that Ford was over the top, with 1,135 delegates favoring him on the first ballot at the convention. But that margin, which the Reagan forces continued to dispute, was hardly decisive in the fluid situation. Baker released the names of 16 delegates not previously counted by him in the Ford totals, notably 15 Hawaii delegates. Many delegate counters had already credited Ford with several of these votes. The fact that the Ford planners had not yet released the names of all their claimed delegates...
...guess President Ford is the most likely Republican nominee, though he is certainly no sure thing. I would guess that with the possible exception of Michigan, I would be ahead now in all the states. Between now and Labor Day, the margin will narrow, but that's to be expected. I think that I will win in November, but only if I don't become overconfident. If I should get arrogant, or start to depend on powerful political intermediaries, that could cost me the election...
...upcoming presidential nomination of his party for president. In preparation, he sought to refurbish his image a conservative, accusing President Kennedy of appeasing the Russians by not allowing Cuban exiles to stage raids against Castro. The polls showed Rockefeller the favorite among Republicans over Goldwater by a margin of 43 to 26 per cent. Only an act of incredible naivete could stop him. Rockefeller provided it by marrying Happy Murphy, fast upon the heels of his divorce from Mary Todhunter Clark. Virtually overnight his lead over Goldwater reversed itself; Goldwater now led him in the polls...
...attempt to make the entire White House more professional in getting those messages across." Gergen's big problem, of course, is that the G.O.P. Convention is only three weeks off, and his boss still leads Challenger Ronald Reagan for the presidential nomination by an extremely narrow margin. At week's end Reagan won Utah's 20 delegates and Ford completed his sweep of Connecticut's 35. According to TIME'S latest reckoning, with 1,130 votes needed to win the nomination, Ford has 1,108 delegates and Reagan 1,090, with 61 undecided...