Word: voters
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...presidential election were held now, Jimmy Carter would defeat Gerald Ford by 48% to 38% of the vote. Just seven weeks ago, after the Florida primary, Ford would have beaten Carter, 46% to 38%. The extraordinary shift in voter sentiment was a stunning measure of how far the Georgian had come by last week, just after his Pennsylvania victory...
...painted maps that showed North and South with all demarcation lines removed-and Hanoi prominently marked as the capital. Called out by Communist ward bosses-and, in Saigon, by the pealing bells of the city's churches-some 11 million Vietnamese trooped to the polls clutching pink voter-registration cards to elect the new, 492-member National Assembly that will serve as the legislature for a formally unified Viet...
...debate sharpens. The easygoing Mo Udall fits the nation's low-key leaning, and he is widely seen as one of the most likable and honest of all the candidates. His problem is that he remains relatively little known, is tagged as too liberal for the current voter mood and is a 15-year veteran of the unpopular Congress...
Later at an open house, Kolling gives a quick definition of Carter's zero-base budgeting plan: "We have to reduce some of the confusion and waste of Government by making agencies justify their spending every year." When specific answers do not satisfy a voter, Kolling falls back on the general: "We have to have a President who can set a tone, someone who can point the country in the right direction and appeal to a lot of different groups." One by one, his listeners nod in agreement...
Callaghan appealed to many Laborites as a pragmatic politician with a shrewd, intuitive sense of what the average voter wants. Some Labor M.P.s were bothered by the fact that, like Wilson, he seems impossible to pin down ideologically. Christopher Mayhew, a former Labor M.P. who entered Parliament with Callaghan in 1945, recalled that the new M.P. was even then a leader, hustling about to corral his fellow freshmen for a meeting. "But on the great issues of the day," recalls Mayhew, "there was no indication of where he stood...