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...greatest hazard for pollsters has been the volatility of the electorate in a year when neither major party candidate commands an unswervingly loyal national constituency. Thus relative trivialities (Carter's remarks to Playboy about lust, Ford's golfing trips from his congressional days) may prompt voters with a soft allegiance to one candidate to shift to an equally transient preference for the other. The debates have contributed heavily to the volatility -Ford gained after the first, Carter after the second-which underscores the importance of this week's third debate...
...labor's thumb that AFL-CIO President George Meany was probably his makeup man. As for Carter, Dole said that the Democratic nominee had three positions on every issue, which was why he had to have three debates with Ford. The Republican also brought up Carter's Playboy interview, noting, "We'll give him the bunny vote...
...Ford did not select Dole as his running mate just for the laughs he might bring. A former G.O.P. national chairman, Dole can peel skin as well as tickle ribs. Dole accuses Carter of vaulting ambition and questions his "weird performance, his judgment" in the wake of the Playboy interview...
Other humorists are less nostalgic -and more bountiful. They have found small seams of giddy gold in Carter's racy Playboy interview, Earl Butz's scurrilous remark, Ford's East European gaffe. If such breakthroughs continue, the contest might yet get something risible visible. "Voter apathy may be peaking too early," deadpans Columnist Bill Vaughan of the Kansas City Star. Adds Boston Globe Cartoonist Paul Szep: "I had to scrounge around for topics, but then in the last few weeks the goofs have been so numerous that my cartoons now come naturally." Among them: a Soviet soldier...
...month ago, Shere Hite, 33, was a former fashion model all but unknown outside a few feminist circles in Manhattan. Today she is a sex guru. Harper's Bazaar and Playboy are planning interviews, and she seems sure to be the subject of magazine covers in the months ahead. She is appearing on TV talk shows, New York University has invited her to lecture on female psychology, and the New York Times Magazine has asked her to write an article on female sexuality. So many want to plumb Hite, in fact, that she has decided to turn down...