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Both Carter and Mondale will travel in chartered Boeing 727s, which will haul enough black boxes of communications gear to run a SAC mission. A computer on Carter's plane, linked to the Atlanta headquarters, will spew out a daily intelligence report on such matters as poll results, position papers, travel schedules and campaign spending. Carter is also keeping a cool eye on Ford's efforts. Says an aide: "We're getting really good intelligence on their scheduling?legitimately, I hasten...
...necessarily on the merits of his arguments. Radio listeners, for example, sometimes rated Nixon as having done better. On TV, Kennedy was generally seen as the clear winner of the first debate, a narrow loser of the third, while the other two meetings were tossups. In the Gallup poll, Kennedy picked up three percentage points after the debates and Nixon one, as the number of undecided voters declined. The net effect was to pull Kennedy from one point behind Nixon to one point ahead. Since Kennedy finally won the election by only .2%, any gain at all was critical...
McCarthy's strategy is to focus on some 20 states-eight in the Northeast, seven in the Midwest and five in the West. His support will draw partly from Carter's liberal electorate and could hurt the Democratic nominee in a close election. A nationwide Gallup poll, taken from Aug. 6 to Aug. 9, gave McCarthy 6% of the vote. That figure could be larger in some crucial Northern states-enough to tilt them out of the Democratic column. In California, a Mervin Field poll, taken between July 24 and Aug. 3, gave McCarthy 7% of the vote...
...poll rates it as one of the major concerns of American voters. Yet for those who do feel passionately about it-and millions of Americans of all religious and political persuasions do-abortion has already developed into one of the most emotion-laden and explosive issues of the campaign. Last week it flared again as Jimmy Carter underwent an hour's grilling in Washington by six leading Roman Catholic bishops. By seeming to be rattled by them and expressing a willingness to trim his position, he has guaranteed that the issue will continue to haunt...
...positions on this delicate issue will probably be less important than their candor and consistency. In fact, there is good reason to believe that many Catholics are relaxed about abortion and unlikely to vote for or against a candidate on that issue. According to the latest Yankelovich, Skelly & White poll, Catholics are fairly evenly divided: 48% oppose a constitutional amendment banning abortion, v. 43% in favor and 9% undecided. Still, it cannot be a comfortable feeling for Candidate Carter to have the nation's Catholic bishops, who nominally represent some 49 million Americans, be publicly critical...