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Ironically, Harvard's performance against the undefeated Wildcats was perhaps its best to date--much better than the ten-point victory over Holy Cross last week...
...evangelicals undoubtedly hurt Jimmy Carter. According to an ABC News/Harris survey, Carter won the white Baptist vote in 1976, 56% to 43%, and lost it this time, 56% to 34%. The Harris analysis indicates that the shift in the evangelical vote accounted for two-thirds of Reagan's ten-point margin over Carter. Other experts do not agree; they claim that the New Right had its main effect in state and local elections where certain targeted liberal candidates were already in serious trouble...
...first time since September, a New York Daily News straw poll released Thursday shows D'Amato with a seven-point lead over Holtzman. Little more than a week before, a Times-CBS News poll had given Holtzman a ten-point edge. With D'Amato gaining rapidly, pressures should mount for a Javits withdrawal; some analysts believe that most of the estimated 23 per cent of the electorate that favors Javits will vote for Holtzman. Javits acknowledges that his long-shot struggle to recover from defeat in the Republican primary is losing momentum; polls indicate that only half of the voters...
...announce that he intends to win its 45 electoral votes, the largest bloc among the 50 states. He was encouraged by his pollster, Pat Caddell, who found in his California surveys that Reagan's support was soft. The latest studies by Independent Mervin Field gave the Republican a ten-point lead. Reagan, who has won four prima ries and two general elections in the state, professes not to be worried. Scoffs Aide Spencer: "They're trying a little psychological warfare...
...Still, a ritual like the American presidential campaign might be more fun, and certainly more preposterous, with a ceremonial conversion into verse. What if Americans followed the British example, if they had a laureate to bang out clerihews and odes-a little something to mark a President's ten-point jump in the polls, a sonnet for renomination...