Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...please remember that tomorrow gives you your only chance in four years to do anything about the identity of the President besides disparaging it at the dinner table. In addition, the student vote does matter in Massachusetts legislative and statewide races. Do us all a favor and check the chart at the center of this issue, then get out and cast your ballot...
Among women, Quayle's significance to thecampaign declined. Two-thirds of the women polledsaid the selection of the handsome senator rumoredto have been chosen for his appeal to the oppositesex did not affect their choice. Among men, 51percent said Quayle did not matter. Women who wereinfluenced by Bush's choice swung almost entirelyto the Democrats, with only 2 percent sayingQuayle increased their support of the Republicanticket. Five percent of the men said Quayleboosted their support of Bush and 44 percent saidthe Indiana senator pushed them towards Dukakis...
...quantify how many votes the name recognition got for [Joe] Kennedy, but I know that he had immediate name recognition," said Tom Gallagher, who dropped out of the Eighth District race in June 1986. "The first name really matter. Having the [Kennedy] just snowballs...
...landless peasants to improve their lot. Hope flared briefly in 1986, when Haitians rebelled and forced "President-for-Life" Jean-Claude Duvalier into exile. Since then, the government has changed hands three times, most recently last month, when a coup installed the regime of Lieut. General Prosper Avril. No matter how good Avril's intentions are, however, Haiti is so dirt poor, literally, that it may never flourish again...
...Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak)) Shamir, who was wanted by Interpol, was later elected and is the Prime Minister. This is democracy. I did not elect Abul Abbas. It was the Palestine National Council ((P.N.C.)) that elected him. And a part of the reason is this, that it was a matter of indignity, national indignity; when Reagan breached the agreement with President Mubarak and they hijacked the plane and tried to put him in jail, that caused a reaction of sympathy...