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...this talk clearly is exaggerated. The chances of a Jackson third-party candidacy are close to zero. Jackson, whose political shrewdness matches his evangelical fervor, realizes that an independent bid is the one thing that could damage his hero status in the black community, since it would help re-elect the Republican President many of his followers are passionately eager to defeat. In a speech last week to a nearly all-black crowd of 3,000 greeting him at a railroad station in Philadelphia, Jackson seemed to be preparing his followers for a unified effort against Reagan in the fall...
From the steps of Memorial Church, Womack called the Reagan Administration "a bunch of rich, arrogant, fascist warmongers, but nonetheless cowardly dummies." He added that the true motive behind the move was to "re-elect the old joker they...
...progress in arms control. But it insists that the MX is an essential bargaining lever to achieve that goal. Still, the growing congressional pressure is sure to widen the already existing split between the Administration's moderates, who favor an arms-control agreement in part to help re-elect Reagan, and its hardliners, who remain deeply suspicious that the Soviets will ever negotiate seriously. The key defense appropriations votes in the Senate could come very close to the scheduled resumption of the START talks in early October...
...sales or broad-based income taxes. Determined to protect the state's tradition, Republican Thomson came out of political retirement and filed as an independent. But the Republican nominee turned out to be John Sununu, a conservative ally. Fearing his candidacy could drain enough votes from Sununu to re-elect Democratic Incumbent Hugh Gallen (who refused to take the pledge this time), Thomson tried to withdraw but it was too late. His self-defeating campaign worked: Thomson got only 2% of the vote and Sununu upset Gallen...
...served with a Democratic President. They looked on the incumbent President as an adversary. I had a rough row to hoe from the beginning. I also did not give the Congress any goodies to take home, nothing popular, where a Congressman could go home and say: "You ought to re-elect me because I voted for the Panama Canal Treaty or because I voted to increase oil prices by deregulation...