Word: mississippi
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...CONS. In contrast to the weary pragmatists of the Senate, the young Turks of the House, such as Gingrich, Kemp and Platform Committee Chairman Trent Lott of Mississippi, have the clear-eyed look of true believers. No wilted shirt collars in this group. With hair carefully styled and blow-dried, they look like local-news anchormen. Television is, in fact, their medium. Its cameras are permitted in the House (unlike the stodgier Senate), and the young Turks unabashedly perform for the C-SPAN telecasts of floor debates. A Democratic majority still runs the House, so the Republicans are freer...
...other Southern states, which among them have 109 electoral votes, the President has a decent chance to win all ten. The Democrats, however, write off only Florida and Virginia. Mondale Campaign Chairman James Johnson says that "Tennessee is close" and that Georgia, Alabama and "maybe even Mississippi" are winnable. Right now, however, the region is Reagan's to lose. The most recent Darden poll showed Reagan with an enormous 26% regional lead. White Southerners tend to share his extreme hawkishness and his distaste for civil rights schemes like affirmative action. "I think Reagan can just sleep late," says John Havick...
...Southern hopes rest on the black vote. A University of Alabama poll found that Reagan is leading in the state just 46% to 40%. If the party is able to generate huge black turnouts in Alabama (where 23% of the electorate is black), South Carolina (28% black), Georgia (22%), Mississippi (26%) and Louisiana (25%), and capture at least a third of the white vote in each state...
...ferry conventioneers between the 47 delegation hotels and the convention, G.O.P. organizers will be running a fleet of 120 shuttle buses (price of a four-day pass: $30). Only minor skirmishes over platform positions are expected inside the hall. Conservatives, led by Kemp and Congressman Trent Lott of Mississippi, are pushing for three major planks: a return to the gold standard (tying the value of the dollar directly to the price of gold, a move that, they contend, would lower interest rates and help bring down deficits); an end to the independence of the Federal Reserve; and an ironclad pledge...
Some of the public's ardor may be only curiosity about a historic ticket; many in the Austin audience drifted away after Ferraro finished speaking, before Mondale was done. Mississippi House Speaker C.B. ("Buddie") Newman greeted his party's candidates in Jackson, but refused to say how he would vote in November. Yet last week's jaunt seemed to confirm that even in the South, Ferraro is likely to be a strong asset. Said Lloyd Doggett, who is the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas: "If she can win in Archie Bunker's district...