Word: partisanship
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Walter Mondale wanted to look tough. Gary Hart sought to suggest the ferment of new ideas. Ronald Reagan came along, in a soft-spoken way, because he had money to burn. Even House Republicans entered the act to protest the partisanship of House Speaker Tip O'Neill. As the primary campaign reached its final week and seemingly every conceivable thought had been uttered, politicians aplenty inundated the air waves with new, improved and, in some cases, conspicuously nasty commercials...
...specialist. They argued that under the Ethics in Government Act, passed in 1978 as a post-Watergate reform, Smith was obligated to ask for a special prosecutor (now technically called an "independent counsel") in the Carter case. "What we had here was an investigation that was rife with partisanship," says Banzhaf...
Experts agree that both underdog and bandwagon effects tend to be stronger in primaries than in general elections. "Most of the evidence suggests that the polls in general elections have a very limited bandwagon or underdog effect," says Gary R. Orren, a Kennedy School professor. In a general election, partisanship provides a broad base of support that "outweighs" any potential effect the polls might have, Orren adds...
...This partisanship does not exist in primaries, and the differences among candidates may not be as well defined and tangible as they are in general elections. "In these primaries," Orren says, "people tend to vote strategically...
...much better off we would be if Reagan had buried partisanship back in the summer of 1981 and taken Speaker Tip O'Neill's budget compromise, which would have held down the deficits that now threaten to bury us. How much better off we would be if Reagan had muted his ire at the Soviet Union and heeded the public's nuclear-arms concerns...