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...Polish joke is even less of a laughing matter for Jerry Ford. It echoes his troubles among Polish Americans and other people of Eastern European descent who make up 10% or more of the population in such pivotal states as New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin. A loss of a relatively few ethnic votes in those battlegrounds could cost Ford dearly, and many of these voters were surprised and offended by his celebrated gaffe in the second debate with Jimmy Carter. "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe," said the President ingenuously, adding that Poland...
...claim he is going to win the election. Even his professed hope of capturing four or five states is farfetched. Nonetheless he plans to spend the rest of the race concentrating on nine states where he has a substantial following among liberal Democrats and independents-Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin, Oregon, Michigan, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and California. That strategy looks as if it is designed to maximize the damage to Carter, and McCarthy seems almost to relish the role of wrecker. He says almost gleefully to applauding audiences: "I've been accused of being a spoiler. Well...
Coach Randy Jablonic of Wisconsin said, "We're unhappy with the early date. We're not as ready for this as we'd like...
More common was the view of Aloysius Mazewski, president of the Polish American Congress and the Polish National Alliance: "People can't understand it. They know the President knows better." (After a phone call from Ford, Mazewski said he felt "satisfied" by the President's explanation.) Said Wisconsin State Representative Joseph Czerwinski: "It's something out of Alice in Wonderland. Voters are going to question why the fellow sitting in the Oval Office has such an unclear picture of what's going on in Eastern Europe." Casimir Bielen, director of the Ohio division of the Polish...
...North Dakota, Nebraska and Indiana. He is well ahead back home in Michigan, and hangs on-but just by his fingertips-in Iowa and Bob Dole's Kansas. South Dakota is seen as a tossup. So are the region's three richest electoral prizes: Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin...