Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was never more true than last week. Ford's closest aides were dreadfully afraid that he would lose his home state of Michigan, and his own polls showed him only narrowly ahead. But the President revived his campaign with a resounding 2-to-1 win. In one race that did go according to forecast, he carried Maryland by 16 percentage points. The polls also showed a confident Carter to be leagues ahead of Morris Udall in Michigan and in front of Brown in Maryland. Instead, the Georgian beat Udall by only a whisker and lost to Brown...
...REPUBLICANS. In Michigan, Ford's fear of Wallace cross-over voters proved groundless. More than 400,000 Democrats and independents apparently did jump into the more exciting Republican contest-but they voted overwhelmingly for Ford. Doing so, they also deprived Carter of much support he might have had. Why did they do it? At least one motive was explained by Detroit Public Relations Counselor James P. Chapman, who supports Carter but voted for Ford: "Reagan's right-wing aggressiveness scares the hell out of me. If he gets the nomination, there's always a chance...
Though the Michigan and Maryland victories reassured Ford and his aides, they were far from euphoric about the future. Said one: "We don't have any illusions. We recognize what's ahead, and frankly, the numbers are tough." Even after Michigan and Maryland, Reagan still led Ford in committed delegates 516 to 475 (needed to nominate...
...DEMOCRATS. "Get Carter" is not only the name of a movie but the rallying cry of a host of rivals who sense that he is vulnerable. In the past two weeks he has beaten Udall by 2% in Connecticut and .3% in Michigan, lost a squeaker to Frank Church in Nebraska, and has been clobbered by Brown in Maryland. This week Californian Brown is favored to win neighboring Nevada, and Church to carry his native Idaho. But Carter is working hard at holding his edge in Oregon and is a safe bet in Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee. Carter is still...
Udall demonstrated in Michigan that he cannot be taken for granted; he keeps on coming. Brown showed in Maryland that he can have wide appeal. He won Scoop Jackson's lunch-bucket crowd, Mo Udall's suburban Volvo votaries, and cut deeply into Carter's ghetto constituency; Catholics also flocked to the former Jesuit seminarian...