Word: voters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some respects, of course, it is still early in the campaign, and there is still room for fairly drastic swings in voter mood and opinion-and in polls. McGovern's own, released last week, showed Nixon 56%, McGovern 34%, with 10% undecided. It was taken Sept. 13-15 by telephone among 1,200 voters...
...KNOWS THAT Nixon went to Moscow and Peking, instituted a wage and price control system, brought 506,000 Americans back from Vietnam, and proposed all sorts of legislation that Congress will not consider. But not once has Nixon or a "surrogate" presented the American voter with a substantial, precise, or inclusive policy explanation about anything...
...campaign had been under way -haltingly-for weeks, and now the traditional Labor Day launch date came and went with much of the nation in a curiously apathetic and unpolitical mood. TIME correspondents exploring voter sentiment last week kept catching a counter-question: "What campaign?" Such indifference could only please Richard Nixon, whose own campaign may not be exciting anyone, but it commands such a lead that his only concern is to preserve the status quo. It is bad news for George McGovern, who is in dire need of igniting some fires, of conquering the fatal idea that...
Flying to Washington, McGovern assembled his squabbling advisers. No sooner had Westwood started to review the voter-registration drive than O'Brien broke in. "You're the nominee of the Democratic Party," he told McGovern. "It has millions of members and adherents, but here we are with Richard Nixon telling Democrats it isn't your party. You're being cast in the role of a third-party candidate. Maybe we ought to start saying that there is a Democratic Party and that, hopefully, you'll be moving it through the '70s." Replied McGovern...
...Four more years!" Shouted at rally after rally and in the convention hall, the Republican slogan was one that Democrats could handily turn into an ironic question: "Four more years?" Yet it neatly symbolized the certainty with which the Republican Party expects Richard Nixon, holding a commanding lead in voter preference over George McGovern, to win reelection. The margin is so great that the Republicans-especially the President-could well have treated their opponent with silence, as though he did not exist as a serious challenger...