Word: darden
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Pennsylvania (Reagan leads 39% to 31% among men, trails 30% to 32% among women, with 26% of women undecided). Polling in eight key states by the Washington Post showed that Reagan led 39% to 34% among men, but was behind 38% to 31% among women. Atlanta Pollster Claibourne Darden found even greater differences in eight Southern states, where Carter gets 47.5% support among women, but only 35.1% among...
...made a two-day tour of the South-time he would rather have invested elsewhere-to try to solidify his besieged base. With the exception of Virginia, the region was for Carter four years ago, giving him 40% of his electoral vote. But a poll by Atlanta's Darden Research Corp. last week of eight states in the heart of Dixie, excluding Virginia, shows Carter and Reagan running even. Says Pollster Claibourne Darden: "If Carter does not do better quickly, he's through." Concerned with the economy, national image and moral issues, many Southern whites have long been...
Even politically neutral observers felt the President had been badly hurt. Georgia Pollster Claibourne Darden predicted that, coming on top of the President's other problems, the Billy factor would be especially harmful. Explained Darden: "If everything was going fine otherwise, the reaction would just be 'It's his stupid brother,' but now Billy's image transfers to Jimmy." California Pollster Mervin Field felt that the Billy affair provides "a disturbing reminder" of the President's previous embarrassing friendship for wheeler-dealer Banker and White House Insider Bert Lance. "The Billy thing puts President...