Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...themselves Republicans (v. 48% Democrats and 26% independents). The Gallup poll, meanwhile, shows that the percentage of Americans who consider themselves Republicans has dropped from 28% in 1972 to 23%. Another Gallup survey out this week discloses that voters plan to back Democratic congressional candidates over Republicans by a margin...
...these feelings are transformed into votes on Nov. 5, the Democrats estimate that they could win as many as 50 new seats in the House, changing the current Democratic margin of 248-187 to something approaching 300-135. This would give the Democrats their largest majority in the House since the Depression year of 1936, when they pulled 56.1% of the vote and took 333 seats...
...Senate, only 14 of the 42 Republican seats are up for election, and the Democrats have serious hopes of winning only three or four of these. But since the Democrats may well hold all 20 of their seats that are being contested, they could end up with a margin of around 62-38 in the Senate (it is now 58-42). There is even an outside chance that the election could produce a "vetoproof Congress," with the Democrats controlling two-thirds of both the House and the Senate...
...appeal by some adroit television ads, is running far ahead of Malcolm Wilson, 60, the earnest but lackluster incumbent who moved up from Lieutenant Governor when Nelson Rockefeller resigned last December. A poll published last month by Newsday, a Long Island newspaper, showed Carey leading Wilson by the surprising margin of 52% to 27%. Carey's strong showing has improved the once dismal prospects of his ticketmate: former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, an ultra-liberal Texas transplant who is challenging liberal G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits, 70, long (perhaps too long) New York's biggest vote-getter...
...disclosure of the CIA's intervention in Chilean politics, Senators saw a chance to strike back when a resolution authorizing a temporary continuation of foreign aid came to the floor last week. A majority voted an amendment banning military aid to Chile. Then, by a much larger margin, the Senate voted to cut off military assistance to Turkey on the ground that U.S. weaponry had been used in the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Finally, the Senate voted to stop shipments of fertilizer to South Viet...