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...returning to reality," claims the American Enterprize Institute's Ben Wattenberg. "Reality has a way of hitting us on the head every now and then." James David Barber, Duke's chief political scientist, finds a growing yearning for unity that could manifest itself in these months, setting in motion political currents that would be almost impossible to change...
...Jimmy Carter get reelected? Writing in Public Opinion, a new bi-monthly published by the conservative American Enterprise Institute, noted Psephologists Richard M. Scammon and Ben J. Wattenberg intriguingly argue that if Carter fails to get his White House lease renewed in 1980, the cause may lie not so much in his performance in Washington as in how he got there in the first place...
Scammon and Wattenberg, who backed Henry M. Jackson for the 1976 Democratic nomination, base their argument on the fact that while several constituencies (notably blacks, Jews and labor) can claim that Carter could not have won "without us," only white Southerners can say that he succeeded "because of us." Indeed, the "Scammenberg" thesis is that Southern whites, in giving Carter "the margin of difference," abandoned their natural conservatism to such a degree that "the great paradox" of 1976 was that Carter ran strongest in the region where recent Democratic presidential candidates had been weakest. Because of white disaffection with liberal...
...hard fact of political life in the U.S. that the poor and disadvantaged fail to show their strength at the polls. Political Analyst Richard Scammon, coauthor (with Ben Wattenberg) of The Real Majority, estimates that as many as 80% of the 80 million to 90 million Americans who will vote in this election could be middle-or upper-class. What is more, a Gallup poll released last May showed that 47% of those surveyed consider themselves to be right of center, whatever their party label...
...even a larger debate on whether the self-confidence has been building all along and the Bicentennial simply provided an opportunity to parade it or whether all the fireworks and songs had actually been a catalyst for something new. Washington's resident joy boys, Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg, who write on political moods, felt vindicated since they have said for years America was never as down as others insisted. "This country listened to Jerry Rubin too long," said Scammon. "We heard from the mass of America on July 4. They have always been this way." And Wallenberg...