Word: errors
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...campaign, they have fought each other to a draw. The latest poll for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc., shows Carter leading 42% to 41%, with 12% for Anderson and 5% undecided. But Carter's lead is so small, well within the range of a possible sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, as to be almost meaningless, particularly since it is not the popular vote that determines who shall be the next President. A "national" election, of course, is really an amalgam of elections in the 50 states and the District of Columbia; the winner...
Presidential debates compel both men to gloss over their miscalculations, exaggerate their strengths, try to lure the other one into error, in order to emerge in the eyes of the public at large as a "winner." All of these objectives so coveted in television performances are the opposite of the qualities so vital to Executive deliberation and diplomatic negotiation...
...study was based on a national sample of 1,632 registered voters interviewed from Oct. 14 to 16. The sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points, and 4.5 percentage points when compared with previous TIME studies...
MEANWHILE, THE U.S. SEEMS intent on committing a foreign policy error in the Philippines similar to the fiasco in Iran. Right now, Congress has a five-year, $500 million aid agreement with this country in its ninth year of martial law. During the presidential campaign, the State Department has a vested interest in keeping the situation "stable" and, more important, quiet, President Carter (and accordingly, Secretary of State. Edmund Muskie) cannot afford to have another military dictatorship ally fall this week, lest he be open to charges of "softness" from his Republican opponent...
...third inning, a walk to Bob Boone, an error charged to KC second baseman Frank White, and a perfectly executed bunt by Rose loaded the bases for Schmidt, who then doubled in the first two runs of the game...