Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nomination, base their argument on the fact that while several constituencies (notably blacks, Jews and labor) can claim that Carter could not have won "without us," only white Southerners can say that he succeeded "because of us." Indeed, the "Scammenberg" thesis is that Southern whites, in giving Carter "the margin of difference," abandoned their natural conservatism to such a degree that "the great paradox" of 1976 was that Carter ran strongest in the region where recent Democratic presidential candidates had been weakest. Because of white disaffection with liberal national candidates, the percentage of the vote won by Democrats...
...matter what the outcome, the next National Assembly seemed condemned to reflect the nation's divided political attitudes. Even if the present center-right government managed to survive, it would probably do so by such a narrow margin that any future government's effectiveness and longevity would be limited...
Evidently, the Wall Street Journal still has a steady following: the perennial favorite, Economics 10, "Principles of Economics," held on to the number-one position by a wide margin...
...with 16:45 left in the game, Harvard coach Frank McLaughlin shifted the tempo in the Crimson's favor with a fullcourt press, Cy Booker hit for a deuce and Bob Allen connected on consecutive shots to narrow the margin...
Leading by the one-goal margin with just under five minutes remaining, George Hughes jousted Dartmouth's Barry Ryan with his stick after Ryan had hooked him on a breakaway. Hughes was assessed a five-minute major penalty for highsticking, and Harvard was forced to play short-handed and short-a-Hughes for the rest of the game...