Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whole strategy is just to hold on. He's doing that too damn well." Reagan plans to use TV commercials aimed at specific states and to keep hammering away at his opponent's failures without getting so personal that he harms his own genial image. Says Reagan Strategist Richard Wirthlin: "The campaign so far has been event-driven to a large extent. We think we can now bring it back to the Carter record...
...breathe a little more easily. Carter seems to be moving ahead of Reagan, largely at the expense of Anderson, who had been getting as much as 18% in the polls but who now has begun slipping-a sign that disenchanted Democrats may be coming home. Admits a top G.O.P. strategist: "We feel that we don't have a lot of control in this state. As John goes, so go we." Democrats, however, worry that Anderson could swing New York to Reagan if he took as little as 10% of the state's vote...
Whether such successes can be repeated in the more important state races is in some doubt. In Iowa, state groups allied with Moral Majority and Christian Voice are going all-out to defeat liberal Democratic Senator John Culver. Declares Christian Voice Strategist Colonel Doner: "John Culver is part of the crowd which made legal the killing of babies, made the streets safe for criminals and rapists and kicked God out of our schools...
...members of TIME'S Board of Economists have close ties to two of this year's presidential nominees. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ford, is now a strategist for Ronald Reagan; Walter Heller, who was President Kennedy's chief economic aide, is an occasional consultant to Jimmy Carter. During a luncheon discussion last week, the two economists debated their candidates' policies. Some highlights...
...Louis Harris revealed that 69% of those interviewed wanted a three-way debate. Says Harris: "Carter's refusal to debate makes him the issue rather than Reagan or Anderson. If there is an empty chair, it is going to put Carter in a highly vulnerable position." Former Reagan Strategist John Sears disagrees. Says he: "Carter's right not to want to give Anderson that kind of exposure...