Word: midterms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...principles, and so it must turn out right. That is the approach he has taken with the major acts of his Administration?so much so that the budget decision, and the way in which it was reached, constitutes a kind of microcosm of the Reagan presidency as it approaches midterm. The decision illustrates not only the President's views but his temperament, his outlook and how he handles his job. It indicates, too, the strengths and weaknesses he will carry into the third and fourth years of his term and doubtless into a second term, if he chooses...
...midterm, the troubles accompanying Reagan's virtues are increasingly apparent. Even his successes, most notably a far more rapid reduction in inflation than most economists would have thought possible two years ago (from 13.5% to 5.5%), are in a way dangerous because they reinforce one of the President's most distressing tendencies. He has a propensity to seize on one comforting truth and magnify it into the whole truth, blocking out all evidence of continuing or looming trouble. Says one former aide: "You have to be careful with him. If you had nine bad items to tell...
...President can achieve all his goals in two years, certainly not if his performance is matched against the invariably overblown rhetoric of his platform and campaign speeches. Nonetheless, midterm is an appropriate point for an interim assessment of how well Ronald Reagan is doing in pursuing the main themes of his presidency, which he sketched with unusual clarity and force as a candidate. It is a mixed record...
...halfway from the presidential election of 1980, which offered us the choice of Ronald Reagan or Jimmy Carter, to the election of 1984. With the midterm elections out of the way, and Ted Kennedy removing himself, the 1984 campaign is on. Various preliminaries have been visible for months, in the speaking schedules of the various Democratic possibles. If any Republican other than the incumbent entertains thoughts of 1984, he would be foolhardy to say so; the obligatory sentiment is that Reagan will run and be reelected...
...Great Society of the 1960s than to the more fiscally tight 1980s. Along with Bay State congressional colleague Tip O'Neill, Kennedy has increasingly been seen as a caricature of the decline of 1960s urban liberalism, a vestigial proponent of an outdated philosophy. Exit polls during last month's midterm elections illustrated this perception: they showed President Reagan comfortably ahead of Kennedy and of fellow old-style liberal Walter F. Mondale. Voters apparently doubted--with reason--whether the two Democratic frontrunners had any fresh alternatives to Reaganomics, believing the two men intended simply to continue throwing money at the nation...