Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most important Nixon-McGovern differences, though, are not about the economic record but about policy for the future. Their major points of dispute...
...talking during the primary campaign of giving what his advisers called a $1,000 "demogrant" to everybody-even though the proposal was meant to replace some existing welfare programs- McGovern excited the social reformers, who are a minority in America, while deeply offending multitudes who thought it contradictory to the work ethic (see THE ESSAY, page 96). As economist Arthur Okun, a McGovern adviser , puts it. "The things that helped him win the division pennant have hurt him in in the World Series." When McGovern belatedly buried the demogrant idea in August, he alienated many more people, who decided that...
What is surprising is that voters who are loudly and sometimes angrily dissatisfied with Nixon's economic management are at the same time often anti-McGovern. "The whole economic situation is bad. " says Wendell Rushton, a mechanic in Miami. Still, Rushton will vote for Nixon because "McGovern is wishy-washy, and his ideas are too far out." Stuart Silver, a construction superintendent in Chicago, frets that "there are too many people out of work." But Silver is hesitated to vote for McGovern because "his plans are just not realistic, and he keeps changing his position...
Resentment against McGovern's spending and welfare plans is also widespread, and it is by no means confined to people who are affluent or white or both. Christine Trice, a black who is a dressmaker in Los Angeles, asserts: "There is so much fraud in welfare and no incentive to get a job. Welfare needs cutting down, but McGovern seems to want to add to it. Paying for it will come out of the pockets of working people." In Miami, Leonard Lang, a student and part-time clerk says: "I'd very much like to know what happens...
Economically as well as socially, Nixon is effectively appealing to rising conservative feelings. Yet to the extent that there is a pro-Nixon vote on economic issues-as distinct from an anti-McGovern vote-it reflects not so much conservative ideology as an "I'm all right, Jack" attitude among the many voters whose tunes have improved during the exuberant upturn of the past year. "The farmer is going to vote Nixon." declares William L. Lanier, who raises soybeans and tobacco in Georgia. "For the first time in years, the farmer is making profit." Indeed, the Administration...