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Would sticking with Jimmy mean "walking the plank...
...pollster, has gone so far as to predict that the next nationwide surveys may show the President running an astonishing third, behind both Reagan and Independent John Anderson. Said Field: "The question facing the Democratic delegates as they go to the convention is whether they want to walk the plank with Jimmy Carter...
Illinois Senator Charles Percy suffered an even tougher defeat at the hands of his own state's delegation. He took vigorous exception to the platform's judiciary plank, which proposes that only people who oppose abortion should be appointed federal judges. "The worst plank that has ever been in a platform," railed Percy at a special caucus of the Illinois delegation. But at a Reagan lieutenant's request, two Illinois delegates were prepared to deflect Percy's challenge. The delegation voted by 75 to 27 to table Percy's motion...
...Anothing issue," said Congressman Henry Hyde in Detroit last week, dismissing Senator Charles Percy's outrage over the Republican platform plank that urges the appointment of judges "who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of human life." To the approving cheers and laughter of the Illinois delegation, Hyde wondered: "Who could be against traditional family values...
...special target was the Equal Rights Amendment. Reagan aides had already watered down the party's traditional support of ERA, which runs through most conventions back to 1940.* But that was not good enough for the right-wingers. By an overwhelming 90 to 9, they pushed through a platform plank saying that the matter should be left in the hands of the states...