Word: voters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford issued his debate challenge at the Republican Convention in mid-August. Then Carter was far ahead in all the opinion polls and Ford seemed to be playing a desperate catch-up game. The President still trails, but much more narrowly. Yet for better or worse, depending on the voter, he is a known quantity. By contrast, despite Carter's all-out post-convention campaigning, he remains the man on whom millions of voters are still reserving judgment. If he reassures his shaky majority, he might breeze on toward certain victory. If he fails to do so, his support...
...black votes today than seemed conceivable a decade ago. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the critical turning point. Jimmy Carter has called it the most important political event of his lifetime. Spurred through a divided Congress by President Lyndon Johnson of Texas, the act, under a complex voter-participation formula, gave federal authorities the power to supervise, in most Southern states, "any voting qualifications, or prerequisites to voting, or standard, practices of procedure with respect to voting...
Then, in 1974, Republicans suffered a serious setback. The Southern G.O.P. lost one seat in the U.S. Senate, seven in the House and 82 in state legislatures ?including 40 in North Carolina alone. The main reasons were voter protests against Watergate and the recession, but Virginia Congressman M. Caldwell Butler, a moderate Republican who was one of several Southern stars on the House Judiciary Committee that voted for impeachment of President Nixon, ascribes to the G.O.P. of his own state a flaw that applies elsewhere as well. Says he: "Republicans in Virginia have fallen heir to the extremist conservative...
...some rural areas, remnants of the barricades remain. Voter registration is occasionally made difficult for blacks, and without it, they cannot serve as jurors. There are neighborhoods and apartment buildings that still exclude blacks...
...devoted himself to applying that discipline to sociology, psychology and market research. A pioneer in researching the effects of mass communication, he systematically studied, along with Frank Stanton, later president of CBS, the radio-listening habits of Americans in the '30s and '40s. Modern voter-projection methods grew out of his original studies of election behavior. For 29 years a professor at Columbia, Lazarsfeld was a lively and influential teacher who molded many of today's leading sociologists...