Word: voters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unenthusiastic about the bill; as President Ford pointed out during the first debate, Carter passed up the opportunity to tar Ford with the same "pro-unemployment" brush that had been used against him only a few months before. Merely addressing an issue does not necessarily serve to educate the voter or provide him with the information required to make a rational decision...
...Carter is still ahead, but his base of "sure" states has been declining. On the other hand, Ford could just as easily lose his recent gains. In a year of voter indecision and general indifference, quick and sharp fluctuations in sentiment are more likely than...
After all of the buildup and suspense, the televised clash in the pressure-pot atmosphere of Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theater failed to crystallize voter opinion. Each man pointedly assailed the other at times. But neither seemed eager for?and the non-debate format prevented?a direct and personal showdown. The language occasionally was tough, yet both candidates seemed wary of breaking any new ground. Perhaps having overstudied the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates and apparently intent on showing how knowledgeable they were, both candidates threw out briefing-book statistics in baffling profusion. But, unlike John Kennedy, they rarely marshaled...
...deep into an academic study of this election and its participants, and he is pledged to restraint until it is over. Sometimes perched in an old-fashioned barbershop chair he has in his office, he turns away pleadings to rate the men by his scale. But he thinks every voter should do his own analysis...
Samp said that absentee ballots in Cambridge are reserved for invalids, and must be signed by a notary public in the presence of the voter. He added that Stewart's campaign workers had allegedly collected absentee ballots and given them to a notary, who had signed them all at once...