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Heading into today's game against Princeton (1-2 in the Ivies, 5-4 overall), Ford continues to spew out the same old stump speeches explaining the team's bad fortunes that he has used throughout the Crimson's dismal fall campaign...
...turning point in this election, I think this week may very well have been just that." Carter has lately seemed more at ease after revising his scheduling system so that he works shorter hours and suffers less from fatigue. He has also become more forceful on the stump. According to a survey by TIME correspondents, Carter already holds a comfortable lead in electoral votes, with 273 v. Ford...
...mesh with Carter's carpetbaggers and with his Atlanta headquarters. Now that the polls show Carter is in danger of losing, some party leaders are more likely to submerge their jealousies in the interest of capturing the White House. Carter be came markedly more aggressive on the stump, refocusing attention on what is his strongest issue: the economy. He was aided by some dismal statistics showing that 2.5 million Americans last year sank below the poverty line ($5,469 for a nonfarm family of four) and by reports from economists that recovery has slowed during the third quarter...
Television's invasion into Southern homes has turned the flamboyant old stump speakers into an obsolete breed. Like many another oldtime Southern demagogue, Louisiana's Huey Long, who could have talked the alligators out of the bayous, used his stump-speaking abilities to become the hero of his state's poor people. So did Eugene Talmadge, an on-and-off Governor of Georgia for many years in the 1930s. His son, U.S. Senator Herman Talmadge, makes a then-and-now comparison: "In my father's day, you had big rallies at the county courthouse and, if you could afford...
Carter does not fit many Southern stereotypes. He is not a hard drinker, poker player, or profane and garrulous see-gar-chomping raconteur. His humor is low key, his New South approach to voters is cooler than the delivery of the hot stump speechifiers of another era. Carter tells crowds: "When I'm in the White House, you'll have a friend there." In contrast, a prewar Georgia Governor and populist, gallus-snappin' Eugene Talmadge, was wont to tell his crowds: "Come see me at the mansion after I'm elected...