Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter against the world." He has yet to prove he can win in a big industrial state, but he hoped for a clear victory-an upset that could finish Jackson. Udall's polls showed Carter ahead. Carter's own private polls indicated that he was the most popular candidate among the three in Pennsylvania, but the voters were so ambivalent that his recently won advantage could vaporize by primary...
Even if Carter ekes out a plurality in the statewide popular vote, as seemed likely last week, Jackson stands an excellent chance of gaining first place in the quite separate vote for delegates. Reason: the delegates are elected in 50 local races, each of which is crowded and confused; but Jackson's labor and machine allies can steer voters to the "right" choices. (Of Pennsylvania's 178 delegates, 134 will be elected next Tuesday and the balance appointed later.) Thus the primary that had been billed as a dramatic Armageddon was becoming more of a diffuse guerrilla...
...unemployment goes down well in Woods' local-30% of the 1,700 members are jobless-and throughout the heavily Catholic, working-class 42nd State Senate District where Woods grew up (he played violin in the high school orchestra before becoming a sheet-metal apprentice). But Jackson is less popular than the things he stands for, and Woods realizes...
Crisscrossing the district of mills and aging, tiny houses in his new white Catalina, Woods has learned that Carter is no more popular there than Jackson, and Udall is virtually unknown. Twenty-one people are contending for the 42nd's three delegate posts, but Woods has many friends. Bartenders, shopkeepers and others take his literature for display and distribution...
...POPULAR DEMOCRATS, who came in second last time with 26%, advocate a mixed economy and decentralization of the Communist-dominated Intersindical labor organization. Says Leader Francisco Sá Carneiro, former Minister Without Portfolio: "We are a social democratic party, close in terms of programs and policies to the European social democratic parties in Sweden, West Germany and Holland...