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...dreamy nostalgias. Two landslides and six years on, the Gallup poll gives Reagan a 68% approval rating, the best he has done since May 1981, after he was shot and responded gallantly to the ordeal. Pollsters say Reagan has consistently higher ratings over a longer period than any other second-term President since polling began...
Ferraro's finances, which bedeviled her 1984 campaign, were not her only political liability. Alfonse D'Amato, who squeaked into office five years ago in a three-way contest, has confounded Democrats by building a formidable base for a second-term bid. A tireless campaigner who tends assiduously to home- state details, D'Amato has amassed a war chest of $7 million. Last week, even though the Democrats have yet to come up with a candidate, five New York City unions, including those representing city employees and transit workers, endorsed D'Amato, bringing his statewide total to nearly 70. Even...
Reagan's precise legislative plans will not become clear until his State of the Union message, scheduled for Feb. 6. But the broad outlines of his second-term agenda are already well known. His goals will be far harder to achieve than those pursued in the first term. It is easier to persuade Congress to cut taxes, as he did in 1981, than it is to reform the tax system, as he will try to do this year or next. It is easier to cut back programs for the poor than to whack entitlements for the middle class, which...
...Second-term Inaugurals may or may not be more fun than first termers, but one thing is certain: the next one will be of the first-term variety. It will have a different texture, a new feel, even if the Republicans are hosts again. Whoever wins the 1988 election will be hard-pressed to match Ronald Reagan when it comes to putting on a show...
...THAT TALK we heard a few months ago during the heat of the campaign about the Reagan Administration's "sleaze factor" has dissipated in second-term euphoria. But events of the past week suggest that the odor of sleeze still lingers on in the White House corridors, and even partisan Republican noses should be picking up the scent...