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...Washington-style pessimism," Mitt Romney said after winning the primary in Michigan, the state where he was born and where his father governed. This was, as is Romney's wont, distillate of hokum. The former Massachusetts governor remains the most pessimistic of candidates, always assuming the worst about the public???and never taking a difficult position or telling a hard truth. In Michigan, he suddenly opposed higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars, included in the recent energy bill signed by the President. He also chided John McCain for telling the hard truth that some of the blue-collar auto industry...
...seeing very real dangers in reducing Reagan's requested military assistance to El Salvador. House Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas, for instance, is among those who feel strongly that the U.S. must continue to support its Central American allies. Like their G.O.P. counterparts?and most of the public???Democrats are generally worried and confused about how to handle a problem they all wish would disappear...
Within the larger framework of Watergate and the economy, specific elections, as always, came down to a contest of personalities. This explains in part why an increasingly conservative voting public???as uncovered by TIME Soundings and other surveys?chose a more liberal Congress. With only rare exceptions, voters ignored traditional party or ideological categories. In Vermont, says former Governor Philip H. Hoff, "the ticket-splitting was just staggering." It helped elect Democrat Patrick J. Leahy to the Senate from traditionally Republican Vermont...
...await a request for it from that committee or hold a hearing of all interested parties, including Jaworski and the White House, on what to do with it. He could simply make it public???or have it locked up indefinitely. Whatever his course, it is likely to become known this week...
...example, the President declared that deterrence based on the ability to kill tens of millions of Soviet citizens was "inconsistent with American values." He also said that he wanted a nuclear strategy that would have "greater flexibility," a phrase that went unexplained?and virtually unnoticed by the public???until last summer. At that time, Schlesinger disclosed that the U.S. missile force was being retriggered to give the U.S. a "counterforce" capability; i.e., the means to strike?if desired?only at Soviet military forces and installations rather than let loose a wholesale volley that would also destroy population centers...