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...nuked to death," says Campaign Manager C. Montgomery Johnson in explanation of Ray's defeat. Indeed, Ray's outspoken advocacy of more nuclear power proved unpopular. In particular, she angered many voters by insisting on keeping open a dump at Hanford for nuclear wastes, including atomic garbage trucked in from other states. Said Ray: "There has to be some place to put it." McDermott favors expansion of nuclear power only "as a last resort," and wants to close the Hanford dump to all radioactive wastes except those from medical facilities...
...implacable double-digit inflation and ever-rising unemployment falls on Raymond Barre, not Giscard. The government's retaliatory economics policies have become known as "The Barre Plan." Giscard operates almost invisibly, pushing Barre forward as the government's official bearer of bad news, letting him take the heat for unpopular policies. The result: Giscard's approval rating consistently rides a good 15 per cent higher than Barre's. Freed from the burden of popular disenchantment with the state of the nation, Giscard can maintain a high profile in foreign affairs, a low profile in domestic turmoil, and most importantly...
...like they arrived on motorcycles, won't let him stop. "Send the fuckers back," they yell when he talks about refugees; and when he mentions that a high proportion of the Cubans "don't like the things that other men like," they all start screaming, "faggot, queer." Welfare is unpopular, as is charity, deemed "communist." A beery tough asks one Klansman how much it costs to join. Told $20, he replies, "For that, can I burn two niggers a month?" "The Klan has no connection to all that violence you've heard about," the kleagle says, and the man looks...
...Caddell, voters these days "are both questioning and harsh" about all politicians. "A certain skepticism has been built in over the past half-decade, since Watergate." One result is that voters are extremely dubious about the ability of a challenger to do a better job than even a widely unpopular incumbent...
...unpopular side of Chun's populism has been his unflinching use of repressive measures against opponents. Kim Dae Jung, 54, the vocal opposition leader, is currently being tried for sedition, a charge that the U.S. State Department calls farfetched. Another former rival, Kim Jong Pil, 54, onetime Prime Minister and head of the ruling Democratic Republican Party, is recuperating from 46 days of detention and grilling by the military. Still under house arrest is Kim Young Sam, 52, leader of the opposition New Democratic Party, who has renounced politics altogether. Chun has also imposed rigid military censorship...