Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spite of all the rhetoric, the charges and the posturing on positions during the past three months, the vast majority of voters have changed their minds very little on issues since the first Yankelovich poll in July. Voters have believed throughout the campaign that Nixon is the real peace candidate, that he will do more to keep the country's defenses strong and be better able to deal with Russia and China, and that he will do more to clean up the "welfare mess." They have continued to believe that McGovern will pay more attention to the "little...
...time of the poll, voters did not feel that McGovern enjoyed an edge in terms of honesty, in spite of the Watergate affair and charges of impropriety against the Administration. Asked directly whether they thought that Nixon and the people working for him have run a fair and decent campaign or a dirty and unscrupulous one, 62% responded "fair," 23% "dirty," and 15% said they were not sure. McGovern and his campaign aides fared less well: 55% said they had conducted a "fair" campaign, 28% said "dirty," and 17% were not sure. Asked who was more honest and had more...
...such a peace settlement might affect the election. Still, it is interesting to note that at the time of the poll, 73% of the voters did not expect a settlement by Election Day, while they split almost evenly when asked whether peace might come in six months. In spite of the fact that the majority did not believe that Nixon would hold true to his pledge to end the war in his four-year term, 60% felt he "was doing everything he could." That would suggest that even if the negotiations are bobbled at the last minute, the voters would...
...spite of his outrage at the war, though, Mailer couldn't help admiring the way the great Republican prime-time extravaganza was handled. The timing, the celebrities, Pat, and especially the Young Voters for the President, fascinated him. For him the YVP was as a mindless, well-scrubbed cheering section, in whose faces he could...
...result is the exhaustive effort of a New York-intellectual brain with an obvious leftward slant trying to comprehend the phenomenon of a Methodist from South Dakota and a shrewd dealer of the Wad running against each other for President. Mailer remains throughout skeptical, pedantic, perceptive, and, in spite of himself, expressive of his admiration for all characters in the principled or unprincipled pursuit of their goals...