Word: voters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NORTH CAROLINA. Democrat Hargrove ("Skipper") Bowles Jr., 52, is being marketed for Governor of North Carolina like a detergent. His campaign consultant has divided the state into six "media markets" and thoroughly researched voter complaints in each market. In the eastern and mountainous western portions of the state, as a result, Bowles commiserates over bad farm roads and promises to revamp an inept highway commission. In Greensboro he emphasizes education, and in Charlotte, taxes...
...Angry Voter. An earlier Buchwald effort dealt with C.R.P.'s Dirty Tricks Department. One Havelock M. Honeycomb reviews a list of shady tactics, then suggests darkly that C.R.P. even hired George McGovern on the sly to make campaign blunders that would widen Nixon's victory margin. After all, says Honeycomb of McGovern, "He is short of money." Another Buchwald column dealt with Nixonian schizophrenia and featured the New Nixon (Dickey) chewing out the Old Nixon (Tricky) for the Watergate bugging, while Tricky laments: "It was the only fun I've had in four years...
...pollster, only to find that the survey concerns 1980; the present contest was settled in a sampling taken last July, and the 1976 election was decided only the previous week ("You'll be amazed," says the pollster, "how that one came out"). In another column, the average American voter is angry at being accosted by a candidate in a parking lot. "When my worst instincts are appealed to," the voter says, "I want them appealed to on television, in prime time, after some patriotic music and a bout of hypocritical prayer." The nominee promptly pledges that "hypocritical prayer will...
...days when food stamps were issued. They exposed officials who used state-financed work gangs to improve their private property. They documented the practice of bureaucrats who paid $5, or sometimes $3 and a bottle of whisky, for a vote. They successfully challenged hundreds of names on swollen voter-registration lists, including those of people long since dead or moved away...
...Committee to Re-elect the President has been responsible for the main Nixon effort in Texas. They say they are not "campaigning" this year, but conducting a "voter-identification drive for President Nixon." "We're attacking on three fronts," a spokesman for the committee said last week. "First, we have telephone centers in places like Houston. We are making about 1500 calls per day for every 10 bank center. We estimate that we have contacted about 575,000 households, or right at one million voters...