Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...others who had seen Carter as an upstart and an outsider, rushed to back him. Last aboard the bandwagon were the liberals. Carter won them over by choosing Minnesota's Senator Walter (Fritz) Mondale as his running mate and by delivering an acceptance speech that amounted to a populist vision of social reform. After the convention, with some polls giving him a lopsided 62%-to-29% lead over Ford, Carter seemed supremely confident of victory. During those precious summer days at home in Plains, he spent more time working out what he would do once in the White House...
Suddenly, it seemed, the stock market had become a kind of political poll, one that pointed down, down, down -down on Ford's chances of staying in the White House, down on Carter's populist economics, and down, or at least doubtful, on the strength of the nation's economic recovery. As the election approached and investors caught the jitters, the calm but healthy bull market that developed with the onset of recovery last year seemed to have been taken over by the bears. In five days of busy trading last week, the 30 stocks...
...HEART, HE KNOWS YOUR WIFE. Volunteers, with no overriding issue to turn them on and a candidate who frequently turns them off, were hard to come by everywhere. There is some confusion between the relatively conservative Carter who speaks of love, healing and balanced budgets and the angry populist Carter who laces into the fat cats and promises Government programs that sound expensive. Perhaps Carter's worst problem is still the fact that most voters do not feel they know him. Admits Gerard Doherty, the Bostonian directing the Carter campaign in New York: "People still feel they haven...
...white politicians put in power under these circumstances most often fell in the George Wallace/Orval Faubus mold, that is, rhetorically populist and politically conservative. They did nothing to help organized labor and little--as far as eradicating consumer taxes or properly financing education and health, or eliminating residency requirements for receiving unemployment compensation--to meet poor whites' social needs. The local business and landed establishment in states like North Carolina and Alabama, consequently, stayed within the state and nominally, the national, Democratic coalition, giving the South its one-party character...
Jimmy Carter? His acceptance speech, he said, "not inadvertently shifted back and forth between liberal and conservative, but I think it was uniformly populist in tone." Is he a populist? "I think so." But what's a populist? "I'll let you define that...