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Every fourth winter ABC makes a TV addict of me with its coverage of the Winter Olympics. Bringing the efforts of the world's finest youth into our homes is television at its best...
...Walter Mondale's aura of invincibility was such that almost everybody forgot about New Hampshire's quirky politics and unusual demographics. The polls contained no hint of an upset in the making: only a week before the primary, an ABC-Washington Post poll showed Mondale first with 37% and Gary Hart third (behind John Glenn) with 13%. The Mondale campaign serenely cruised about the state in long motorcades, with scores of reporters and television crews in tow. Hart bounced around in vans, with few reporters and fewer TV cameras in sight. As he wandered into coffee shops, Hart...
Mondale said later that "the last four or five days, I could feel something happen." But not until Sunday night, when the ABC-Washington Post poll put Mondale and Hart in a dead heat, did the Mondale dreadnought realize it was sinking. "We were 'pretty surprised," said one top aide. "It happened in 48 hours. It was a trend we couldn't get hold of." As worried aides analyzed the plummeting polls, they began praying for clear weather. A snowstorm would keep home elderly voters and complacent party regulars, Mondale's core constituency...
Jackson did not help his cause in an interview with Ted Koppel on ABC's Nightline. "I've listened to many Jews say, looking at the Holocaust, that they went to the gas chambers much too silently," Jackson said.* He was trying to draw a parallel with the persecution and deaths of blacks since slavery days; like Jews, he said, blacks were vowing "never again...
...polls lies at the heart of the problem and Wirth alludes to it--perhaps inadvertently--that the first projection in Iowa. by CBS News, was broadcast at 8:12 PM-18 minutes before the caucuses even began. The other two networks quickly followed. NBC a few minutes later and ABC at 8.46. Significantly, these projections differed radically from the ranking of just the day before...