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Pollsters are finding that in cases in which both candidates swing at each other, instead of touting their own merits, both may lose popularity. Says Robert Squier, who produces commercials, some of them negative, for Democrats: "You can end up with a situation where the voters say, 'If you want to fight it out, go do it alone.' " Unfortunately, this is not always the reaction. In the Iowa Governor's race, Democrat Roxanne Conlin ended a tailspin in the polls after she introduced ads charging that Republican Terry Branstad as a state legislator had voted against helping...
Cambridge resident J. Glover Taylor said he plans to vote against what he calls a national swing towards conservatism this year. The choice between liberal and conservative candidates such as Dukakis and Sears is "particularly dramatic," he said...
...Hartford lawyer who entered the race only nine weeks ago. Although DiFazio has no chance of winning, he has substantial financial backing from the New Right and might siphon off votes from Weicker. With Weicker leading Moffett by only a few points in the polls, even a small swing to DiFazio could affect the outcome...
...Kohl took office, he said he intended to head "a government of the middle ground." The main challenge he faces between now and March will be to keep to that course. If he fails, the risk is that the Greens may replace his minority partner Free Democrats as the swing party in the promised elections. If that happens, West Germany, already involved in what one veteran diplomat in Bonn calls "a period of unprecedented political, economic and emotional turmoil," could face even worse upheaval. -By George Russell...
Lloyd Webber's task was to find a musical vocabulary that parallels Eliot's individual profiles of the cats. Here, Lloyd Webber's bent for the derivative is something of a help. He moves easily from rock to swing to ballad to full-throated hymnal invocation. That he overpowers as much as he underscores may be due to the Winter Garden's rabid amplification...