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...have some differences, however. Careful though Bush was not to attack Reagan personally during the primaries???the only thing he did to emphasize the contrast between Reagan's 69 years and his own 56 was to brag endlessly that he jogs two or three miles a day?Bush did lash heartily into some of Reagan's positions. The most important was Reagan's advocacy of a 30% cut in income tax rates over three years, a proposal that the nominee not only repeated but stressed in his acceptance speech last week. During the primaries, Bush derided that idea as "voodoo...
WEST. Ford is stronger here?and Carter did worse in the primaries???than anywhere else in the nation. The President leads in conservative Utah and Idaho; he is also running neck and neck in Oregon and Colorado and is close to Carter in Washington. Jerry Brown, wooed by Carter and eager to establish his good-soldier credentials for the future, has pledged to stump hard to help the Democrat carry the biggest prize, California's 45 electoral votes. Pollster Mervin Field feels Carter leads by six to eight points, but warns that the margin is soft...
...sharpen it, Carter plans to issue many position papers on issues such as urban problems, the economy and the plight of minorities. He will also emphasize the same issues used in the primaries???tax and welfare reform and Government reorganization?though he probably will divulge few new details to keep himself from becoming an easy target for Republicans...
...conclusively that he could topple tough opposition in a big Northern industrial state. In Texas, his come-from-behind victory over Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen showed that not even a popular favorite son could slow the Carter bandwagon. The overwhelming successes?he has won eight of the first ten primaries???stunned old-line political leaders...
...leading Republican candidate?expected to win the Republican primaries???is Frank D. Waterman, famed manufacturer of fountain pens, nephew of his company's founder...
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