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Many Democrats fear the party will be so badly split by it that the White House will be lost to the Republicans. On the other hand, many Republicans dread the possibility of a Kennedy victory. Says House Republican Leader John Rhodes:
Kennedy often seems to be trying to accommodate himself to as broad a range of views as possible. Sometimes he sounds much like a New Frontier liberal. To Wall Street investors in New York, and again at a rally in Louisville, he said that Americans "are not asking much from...
On the other hand, Kennedy wants the Government to be more aggressive in intervening to stop large corporations from dominating their markets. He has co-sponsored a bill that would greatly restrict mergers among large corporations. He urges more vigorous enforcement of existing antitrust laws, arguing that some big corporations...
On other issues, Kennedy has blurred his positions or moved them toward the right. In January he endorsed Carter's proposed overall fiscal 1980 spending of $531 billion, with a deficit of about $29 billion. Kennedy urged, however, that $4 billion be cut from the defense budget?he did not...
Kennedy has no basic disagreement with Carter's economic views, but like Carter has given no clear idea of how he would solve inflation and other economic problems. He does charge that Carter has not been pushing his policies aggressively enough. Says Kennedy: "I believe those economists who say that...