Word: populars
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...certain of only a 56-vote electoral margin. He had won 23 states and the District of Columbia?297 electoral votes. Ford had won 27 states with 241 votes. In no fewer than seven states the electoral winner was determined by roughly 1% of the votes. Carter's popular vote edge was more substantial. In actual votes, Carter won by almost 2 million, or 51% to Ford's 48%, greater than the bare victories of either Jack Kennedy in 1960 (49.7%) or Richard Nixon...
Still, it was the South, finally, that made Carter's march north from Georgia feasible. Carter does not end up as a figure who is very popular nationally; though he received 52% of the vote in the East, he lost the Midwest (49%) and the West (46.8%). It was also, for America, notes Pollster Daniel Yankelovich, an election that fractured to a marked degree along the fault line separating the haves and havenots. The affluent, the well-educated, the suburbanites largely went for Ford; the socially and economically disadvantaged for Carter. Thus Carter is in a position similar...
...final sampling for TIME, completed Oct. 19, Pollster Daniel Yankelovich found Jimmy Carter ahead of Gerald Ford, 45% to 42%. That lead was precisely the margin by which the Democrat, according to nearly complete returns, won the popular vote (51% to 48%). George Gallup continued polling until three days before the election and gave Ford an edge of 47% to 46%. Louis Harris wound up a day later and found Carter ahead by 46% to 45%. Given the standard 3 point margin for error, all three polling organizations did well in detecting a close race...
...passed over by Gerald Ford for the vice-presidential nomination-in what now seems to have been a blunder. Baker, intensely ambitious and able, may well become an active candidate for the top job. Still another possibility, though he begins from a small base, is Iowa's enormously popular Governor Robert D. Ray, a tireless campaigner who often ends a day of politicking with a family snack at an ice-cream parlor. He will be only 49 when his fourth term-an Iowa record-ends in January...
...well, like Notre Dame v. Slippery Rock. In his race against former Democratic Governor Warren Hearnes, 53, popular Attorney General John Danforth, 40, had youth, money, an unsullied reputation (in addition to his law degree, he holds a bachelor of divinity degree from Yale). He also had a usefully ambivalent image as both a liberal and a conservative. As it turned out, Danforth won the support of an impressive 57% of the voters, and thus will become the first Republican Senator from Missouri in almost 25 years...