Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's swing seemed aimed at the audacious goal of a 50-state sweep. Confident that his natural base in the West and the South was politically safe, he headed for Massachusetts, New York, Ohio and Illinois. "We are going into the Democratic heartland to solidify a great victory," said Political Director Edward Rollins. Reagan devoted considerable energy in the final week to providing coattails for such needy House and Senate candidates as Roger Jepsen in Iowa and Charles Percy in Illinois. The President told a crowd in Media, Pa., "If a gypsy looked into a crystal ball...
...solution seems clear for the Democratic party: it must take a bold swing to the center, abandoning its liberal identification...
...certainly, this election swing demonstrated that the voters will honor such an issueless campaign...
Taken by itself, the above evidence would appear to justify a 30-seat swing. But the majority of analysts are forecasting shifts of only 12 to 18 seats. One determinant which serves somewhat to nullify the electorate's changing demographic nature is gerrymandering...
...than a year. "I'm proud to say that during these last four years not an inch of territory has been lost to the Communists," he declares. Last week he presided over a White House ceremony celebrating the first anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Grenada. On a swing through California, he stood in front of a production model of the B-l bomber at the Rockwell International plant in Palmdale and reminded workers there that the last Administration had tried to kill the plane. Said Reagan: "Mondale has made a career out of weakening America's armed...