Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economy as bad as Carter says? Is it as good as Ford contends? The answers the voters give to those questions may well swing the election, for next to the character and personalities of the candidates themselves, the mercurial, often mystifying economy has become the main issue of Campaign '76. Moreover, voters this year have a genuine choice between the candidates' differing economic philosophies...
...building a huge vacuum at the center of our political system," says Walter Dean Burnham of M.I.T. He compares our 1972 turnout of 55% with Sweden's 90% and West Germany's 91%. Says Burnham: "Low turnout leads to special-interest voting. A small disciplined group can swing an election." Pollster Hart, in a major study of nonvoters published last month, was alarmed to find that young voters are not moving into the political process. "They're like a lost generation that doesn't want to participate," says Hart. "Nonvoting is becoming the norm...
...campaign swing through the South, President Ford turned up one day with Alabama Football Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant at his side. While a crowd watched and TV cameras whirred, Bryant smiled benevolently, reached over and patted the President on the head. "That was worth 100,000 votes in football-crazy Mississippi," said a happy Ford aide later...
...Towers resident who refused to be identified said, "It doesn't matter to me where I vote. I doubt there are enough student voters in New Leverett to swing an election anyway...
...Bother Me, I Can't Cope, is a musical and revue about, among other things, love, and involving soul, rock, folk, blues, gospel music, calypso and swing, to mention a few. Sound impressive? It is. It is playing Tuesday through Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 6 and 9:30 p.m., Sunday at 3 and 7:30 p.m. at the Charles Playhouse, 76 Warrenton St., Boston...