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...hunger to get away from crisis, stridency, hysteria, a rejection of any kind of extremism," reports TIME'S public opinion analyst Daniel Yankelovich. Agrees Alan Baron, a liberal Washington Democrat: "This country wants an overall amnesty. Everybody wants to rest." To Frank Mankiewicz, a director of George McGovern's emotional campaign in 1972, the attitude toward Government now is "not so much like 'Bring us together' as it is 'Leave us alone...
...Metaissue." "People are very much searching for someone they can believe in," observes Joe Grandmaison, the 1972 McGovern campaign director in New Hampshire. This quest puts a new emphasis on intangible qualities of leadership. Contends George Reedy, the astute former press secretary to Lyndon Johnson: "The real issues in the campaign are spiritual rather than economic and social. The average American today is lost. He doesn't know what to believe, where to go, what to do." Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist calls these spiritual concerns collectively a "metaissue-an issue above issues. It involves tone, honesty, decency, truthfulness...
Almost three-fifths of the foreign-car owners in the survey favored détente, but only one-third of the U.S.-auto owners did. Virtually all the Saab drivers-98%-voted for George McGovern in 1972; so did 82% of the Mercedes drivers, 80% of those with Volvos, 76% of the Porsche owners, 74% of the Volkswagen owners. By contrast, 49% of the professors with G.M. cars voted for Richard Nixon; he had been less favored by owners of Fords (40%) and Chrysler products...
Each night Hurtig and Reid call at least five friends, asking each to call five others. They use lists from the 1972 McGovern campaign, in which they met. They give neighborhood children quarters for distributing leaflets. When they consider their prospects realistically, they console themselves with the knowledge that every vote they get is a blow against the local machine and an assist to Udall's survival beyond the Pennsylvania primary...
...prosperity. So, no presidential campaign is complete these days without a network of economists to feed the candidate ideas on how to deal with unemployment, inflation and economic growth. The technical ability and political insights of these experts can make or break a campaign-as illustrated by George McGovern's 1972 economic program that turned into a vote-losing albatross. Moreover, the ideas of the economists who advise the eventual winner can shape the way Americans live and work for years after the election-especially if, as can happen, the candidate's campaign advisers become the policymakers...