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...focusing attention on the personality of his eggheadish foe, while putting just a little distance between himself and Reagan. Like his famous father before him, the Illinois Democrat lacks a personal touch. He has compiled his economic program for Illinois in a 300-page redevelopment pamphlet, yet on the stump he has come across as brainy and out of touch. His defensive response to a flurry of wimp jokes--he launched an ad campaign stressing that he had volunteered for the Marines during the Korean War--only accelerated his electoral decline. So did his outlandish last-ditch salvos at Thompson...
...unemployment rate. Democrats everywhere are seeking to pin the blame for double-digit unemployment squarely on Reagan. On national TV, the President last week took the issue headon, an action he had been avoiding. In a sober address from the Oval Office that was considerably more effective than his stump speeches on behalf of Republican candidates, Reagan attempted to assure the voters of his concern, argued that his policies are slowly bringing the nation out of an economic mess created mostly by his predecessors, and stressed his Administration's accomplishments in reducing inflation (now 5.1%, down from...
...candidates' styles could not be more dissimilar. Danforth, an uncommonly shy campaigner who appears on the stump infrequently, is an ordained Episcopal priest and an heir to the Ralston Purina dog-food and cereal fortune. He is emphasizing his efforts to help two beleaguered groups-the state's auto workers (with increased tariff protections against imports) and its farmers (with rural enterprise zones). But, as the first Republican elected to the Senate from Missouri since 1946, Danforth is de-emphasizing his ties to the Reagan economic program. One of his political ads urges voters to forget the Republican...
...have not reacted to the tax-giveaway prod as they were supposed to. Instead, the wealthy are worried about deficits--Reagan deficits. Along with new unemployment statistics expected to show no improvement in the availability of jobs, these realities ought to give Democrats plenty to talk about on the stump this month...
...fund raisers, including one at which her father was host. At the same point in his campaign, Cooper had $258,700. Both scions benefit from strong national party support. Former President Gerald R. Ford will drop into Tennessee on Baker's behalf; former Vice President Walter Mondale will stump for Cooper...