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...Eastern European-and German-origin. The Eastern Europeans are largely Catholic, urban and blue collar, and they traditionally vote Democratic. Ford had seemed to be wooing them with some success by emphasizing his rigid opposition to abortion and by playing on fears of Carter's born-again Baptist evangelicalism...
...came out looking terribly poor." Asked who won, Northwestern University Political Scientist Louis Masotti replied with a derisive comment on the audio breakdown, "The Luddites," a reference to the early 19th century workers who smashed machines in protest against industrialization. Added Masotti: "Carter came across as a Southern Baptist preacher, and Ford was reciting high school platitudes. I may not go to the polls in November. I just can't get up for this." Douglas Fraser, director of the United Auto Workers' political arm, predictably thought Carter came off all right, but no better: "He didn't have...
Incredible indeed. In discussing sex at all. Carter was attempting to assure Playboy's presumably hedonistic readers that his own preference for marital fidelity has not given him a holier-than-they attitude. "We are taught not to judge other people," Carter said of his Southern Baptist upbringing. Then, in a rambling response to a suggestion that he might be a "rigid, unbending President," Carter declared: "What Christ taught about most was pride, that one person should never think he was better than anybody else." That should have been sufficient, but Carter continued: "I try not to commit...
...William Wolf of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., said, "It sounds to me like good theology and good honest human experience brought together." The candidate's own pastor, the Rev. Bruce Edwards of Plains (Ga.) Baptist Church, noted, "I have no particular objections to it ... but I would have used other words to describe the same thing...
...There was nothing to be gained," said Senate Acting Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia, pondering why Carter granted the interview in the first place. Commented Robert Bailey, 47, a bakery operator from Freemont, Calif.: "I'm a Baptist myself, and for a Bible-totin' Baptist to say those things-well, they were crude. I don't see why he had to reveal all his deep, inner thoughts-to make a national confession. It certainly doesn't make you a great...