Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...THIS MONTH, that National Coalition has gone local. Undoubtably prompted by the recent reelection of National Rifle Association-endorsed, handgun victim President Reagan, the Coalition's director Michael Beard at a Massachusetts State House news conference announced a shift from national efforts to local campaigns against handguns. The new focus on local level politics will try to convince city and town governments to legislate against handguns. Natalie Roy, director of Massachusetts Citizens for Handgun Control, wants to prohibit citizens from taking guns outside their homes; local police would enforce the prohibition...
...these activists after the 1980 conservative landslide, is it defeat after 1984's instant replay? Perhaps not, for two reasons. First, Reagan's short "coattails" did not produce a conservative sweep in the congressional races. Secondly, the repercussions of the victory have jolted handgun control activists into the daring shift toward local politics, a change that may save their cause. It is, however, not without its problems. At best, the Coalition's campaign for local legislation will mean fewer handgun-related killings; at worst, it will hamper the Coalition's national strategy and delay further the resolution of the issue...
...Democrats, on the other hand, declined to contest only 15 districts. There were 27 vacated seats to be filled this year (the smallest number in nearly 20 years); 13 of them had been held by Democrats, 14 by Republicans. Overall, the situation worked against the chances of any dramatic shift in the makeup of the lower chamber...
...downcast Democrats, the results of Senate races provided the one swath of cheerful news. The party did not regain the majority control it lost in 1980, but the power has shifted a solid bit its way. The net gain of two seats will reduce the G.O.P. majority to 53 to 47. Moreover, the ideological tilt will be even greater than the simple partisan tally indicates, since the two lost Republican seats are going, in effect, to liberal Democrats. Because of the shift, the Senate is more likely to slip back under Democratic sway in 1986, when almost twice as many...
...RISK of casting an even greater pall over the Democratic Party than currently exists, the Reagan landslide is symptomatic of much more than a temporary nationwide shift to the right and a recent disenchantment with New Deal liberalism...