Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McGovern Before the Convention," he said, his puckish face spread in the confident Cheshire, smile, and coasted off to corral a comely. Afro-coiffed Chisholm delegate and convince her to become FMBC her foxy self...
...edge over Barry Goldwater. The average Gallup error in a presidential election since 1948 has been only 2.04 points on the winner. Because the sampling techniques of the major polls allow for the statistical possibility of a plus-or minus-three-point error (meaning they could miss the spread between the candidates by 6 points), the record is impressive...
That is an 11-percentage-point increase over the spread Nixon enjoyed in a TIME Poll conducted the previous month. The latest poll was based on telephone interviews with 2,239 registered voters in 16 key states with a combined total of 332 electoral votes (270 are needed to win). For McGovern, the figures are almost uniformly bleak. However the American electorate is sliced, by age or income, occupation or ethnic group, party affiliation or religion, McGovern leads the President only among blacks, Jews and college-educated youth. With the exception of the Jews and Germans, Nixon has held...
...fairly with Israel, Jewish voters still prefer Nixon 36% to 23%. The change among black voters is perhaps the most startling. In the first TIME poll, McGovern's lead among blacks was 73% to 10%. Now it stands at 55% to 20%, a loss of 28 in the spread...
...actual and potential, is not a matter of race, economic class or education. Like Nixon, McGovern has support among millionaires, blue-collar workers, suburbanites?not nearly so much as the President of course. But it may be that as an idea, an instinct, the McGovern phenomenon is more wide spread than the polls indicate. "In a broad sense," writes Arthur Schlesinger Jr., "the election of 1972 will be the politics of authority and the Establishment versus the politics of change. If McGovern is right on the currents of change, his appeal will reach into every part of our society...