Word: orren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with that mistrust of Carter's issue stances and ability, another side of the character issue may be starting to emerge, Orren said. "Kennedy has taken his knocks and stood gallantly. It's the kind of admiration John Anderson is getting so much of on his side of the fence. You pay your price for a while, but it may end up helping...
...Orren's optimism is tempered by reality. "Chappaquiddick is not something that's going to disappear.... A certain portion of the population will never vote for Kennedy because he doesn't meet their standards of moral rectitude...
...going to win, other factors will have to come to dominate," Orren predicted. "Now you are starting to see people weight those sorts of issues against competency questions.... We haven't had that before--instead there's been intense scrutiny on Ted Kennedy the man. Up till now, people have been voting up or down on Ted Kennedy's history...
Kennedy and his staff made a conscious decision to start stressing the issues, especially stances like gas rationing and wage-price controls where Kennedy stood apart from the President beginning with the early-winter Georgetown speech, Orren said...
...position papers and discussion of the issues, but a campaign creates its own emphasis." Kennedy said "nothing new in the Georgetown speech, except for rationing and wage-price controls We had discussed coming out for those things before, and tried to figure out what the timing was," Orren said...