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LAST DECEMBER, Ted Kennedy whisked his campaign into the Big Apple pointing out that President Carter had turned "thumbs down on the people of New York...I believe that 12 long years of Republican administrations is enough," shouted the senator from the stump, "and it's time we elected a real democrat." Amazingly, Senator Kennedy understated his case against the president. Judged by government aid to cities. the Carter years have not been as bad as the Nixon-Ford era; they've been worse. Between 1968 and 1976, while Republicans ruled in the White House, Federal aid to New York...
...47th race to the White House has just passed its first formal milepost, last week's Iowa delegate-selection caucuses. Yet TIME'S campaign correspondents feel as if they have already endured as many bad meals, standard stump speeches, lost luggage and bumpy flights as most Americans do in a lifetime. In the process of reporting for this week's Nation and Press stories on the Iowa balloting and its implications, our "boys on the bus" paused to assess life on the campaign trail. Among their impressions...
...trip to New England to devote his time to a major speech to be delivered this week. It was to be an overall attack on Carter's foreign and domestic policies. He hopes that a dramatic, sharply focused address, in contrast to his more rambling efforts on the stump, will revive his fading chances in the New England states. If he fails to win in his native region, he plans to withdraw from the race...
...smooth out his jumbled syntax, Kennedy's staff has put together thick black briefing binders filled with direct, simple answers to questions that may arise. "I feel more comfortable on the podium now," says Kennedy and indeed he sometimes strikes a certain rhythm in his basic stump speech that can rouse an audience. "What we have now is not a malaise among the American people, but a malaise in the highest levels of leadership," he booms, slashing the air with one hand and flipping large note cards with the other. "A can't-do President...
Early the next morning an overflow crowd jams a $125-a-plate breakfast in Omaha, the staging point for a swing through western Iowa. It is only 8:30, but Bush, once a dud on the stump, is wound up. The veins on his neck are standing out and his eyes are flashing as he condemns the quality of Jimmy Carter's aides...