Word: narrowings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Southerner to reach the White House since Zachary Taylor in 1849. His rocket rise out of relative obscurity to the Oval Office heights was one of the most sensational political success stories in U.S. history. Yet he had done it in such a sometimes brilliant, often halting, and finally narrow manner as to convey no commanding mandate for his campaign promises or any demonstrated confidence in his still disquieting personality...
...under any Democratic presidential nominee, let alone a small-town Georgian. Yet on Election Day 1976, the coalition reemerged. Some parts creaked badly, some were hardly recognizable, and others seemed to be missing. But the resurrected coalition held together well enough to enable Jimmy Carter to eke out his narrow victory...
Finally, the proposal to ban non-returnable bottles and cans in an effort to improve the environment and conserve energy through recycling suffered a narrow and bitter defeat. It was in part a victim of a saturation-level advertising campaign that often distorted the aims and implications of the bill, falsely claiming for example, that it would not encourage recycling and would cost the state jobs...
...result remained in doubt. The fresh face of the Deep South's first major-party presidential candidate since 1848 had grown all too familiar. His lead in the public opinion polls had fallen further and faster than that of any previous presidential candidate. Yet he clung to a narrow edge. Old Footballer Ford had plunged on, head down and 3 yds. per carry, and was within striking distance of his greatest goal...
...most analysts see it, that could mean a narrow Ford triumph. As a result, while Ford was expected to make a pro forma appeal for all Americans to vote, his forces were more selectively keying their telephone banks and other get-out-the-vote drives to his areas of known strength. Even if the turnout is in the low 50% range, Carter could win a thin popular-vote edge but lose in the Electoral College. More probably, how ever, this would enable Carter to hold a slim popular-vote margin that could translate into a substantial electoral victory...