Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have now decided on one candidate and one program; unfortunately, they are of opposing parties. If the candidates would just switch platforms, I'd have it made in November...
...Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York). The aim was to detect any notable shifts in the blue-collar vote. Large-scale defections from the Democratic Party helped both Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon win the presidency and today seem vital to Reagan's prospects. So far, no real switch has been found. Carter leads by 10 percentage points among blue-collar workers, setting these states up as some of the key battlegrounds between now and November...
While the Kennedy problem lingers for Carter, the Anderson difference so confidently proclaimed by the earnest and stubborn Congressman from Illinois has not really faded either. If Anderson were to drop out, 37% of his present share of the voters say they would switch to Carter, 28% would go to Reagan and 26% claim they would not vote at all. With Anderson out, Carter narrowly leads Reagan in the nationwide popular vote, 44.5% to 43%. However, the sampling did not examine just how Anderson's presence, or withdrawal, would affect the electoral college vote. Anderson has scored...
...moved across town and soon became chairman of Chrysler. He has been the chief negotiator of the company's $1.5 billion Government-guaranteed loan. Says he: "Government officials make it sound so easy: just retrain everybody. When one industry gets hurt by this avalanche of Japanese cars, you switch them all to washing cars. This isn't the jelly-bean business. What if, God forbid, we go to war, and we're fighting the guy who's been supplying us with all the trucks and tanks? Do we rent them from...
...York City, the nation's fashion capital, the $50 million-a-year modeling business has long been the arena for some of the fiercest and most feline competition in the U.S. Rarely has the competition been more savage than today, when top models can, and do, switch agencies almost as often as they change costumes, often at the drop of a harsh word or a seductive whisper...