Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Young personally urged other liberal candidates to stay out of the Florida race and give Carter a chance to win in a head-on contest with the old segregationist. He stumped the state and helped garner 70% of the black vote for Carter-enough to give him his victory margin over Wallace. By then, Jimmy Carter had convinced Young that he could go all the way. Though Carter has not taken all the stock liberal positions. Young feels that blacks are instinctively sympathetic to him. "Jimmy doesn't need that much advice about black issues," says Young. "His childhood...
...Narrow Margin. If Hartmann was a bit nervous about Gergen's expanded role, Press Secretary Ron Nessen was a bit defensive about the newly fortified communications office. Some newsmen have harshly, often unfairly, criticized Nessen-an ex-TV news correspondent for NBC-for his lack of knowledge about White House thinking; some Republicans have accused him of undermining Rogers Morton, Ford's campaign director, whose tendency to put his foot in his mouth has sometimes made it difficult for the White House to support him. But Gergen insisted that his appointment was not designed to undercut anybody...
...behind for nine events-it will be that close," says Jenner. The last event, the 1,500, is a Jenner specialty. The question: Under the lights as the evening wears on, and after two grueling days of tension, can Jenner win his race by a big enough margin to win the gold as well...
...seemed as long and arduous as any expedition of Vasco da Gama, but the last leg of Portugal's journey from dictatorship to democracy was smooth sailing. Braving oppressively hot 90° weather, some 5 million Portuguese went calmly to the polls last week and, by an overwhelming margin, chose General António Ramalho Eanes (TIME, June 21) as their first democratically elected President in 50 years...
...campaign degenerated into a mudslinging match, marked by incidents of vandalism, that confused rather than clarified the issue. But the vote could hardly have been more decisive. By a landslide margin of 2 to 1, Californians last week turned down Proposition 15, which might well have had the effect of banning nuclear power plants from the state. The message seemed clear: voters are not terrified by the remote possibility of a deadly nuclear accident, and they believe that atomic power is necessary to meet future demands for electricity...