Word: wisconsin
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...same problem exists at scores of other colleges. Cornell, Stanford and Wisconsin have established special writing-improvement centers that students attend voluntarily. At Yale, for the first time since the late 1950s, "bonehead English" (basic composition) is being taught freshmen lacking the most rudimentary skills...
...downstate Illinois Carter broke even with Ford--something no other Democrat, excepting Lyndon Johnson, has done since 1948. The story was the same in central Ohio around Columbus, in western Wisconsin and much of Iowa. The Democratic candidate's background as a Southern farmer and evangelical Protestant undoubtedly made the difference here...
...partial return of urban ethnic and Catholic voters after the defection over McGovern. The heavily Catholic Queens borough of New York City gave Carter a margin 10 per cent greater than Humphrey received in 1968. The South Side of Milwaukee was largely responsible for Carter's surprising win in Wisconsin; the mainly Polish, Lithuanian and South Slav voters of that area gave him a vote upwards of 55 per cent...
...more than Sen. Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) did his. Dole's comments in the vice-presidential debates on World War II being a "Democrat" war hurt, as did a more general perception of Dole as a politician in the sinister Nixon mode. Mondale also aided Carter in carrying Wisconsin and Minnesota...
...Jersey 17 * New Mexico 4 * New York 41 * North Carolina 13 * North Dakota 3 * Ohio 25 leaning Oklahoma 8 * Oregon 6 leaning Pennsylvania 27 * Rhode Island 4 * South Carolina 8 * South Dakota 4 * Tennessee 10 * Texas 26 * Utah 4 * Vermont 3 * Virginia 12 * Washington 9 * West Virginia 6 * Wisconsin 11 * Wyoming 3 * D.C. 3 * Totals...