Word: leveled
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Hampshire's senatorial race between incumbent John Durkin, the Democrat, and Republican Warren Rudman has two distinguishing features: it has been extremely bitter, at both a political and personal level; and it has been extremely inexpensive in comparison to most...
...years a city councilman and newly elected mayor of Lorain, does not agree. Parker tells his third visitor on Citizens Day that he "did not win" the election in Lorain but that the "other guy lost it." In Lorain, where "Pride Grows With Progress" at 572 feet above sea level, the Democratic mayor ran into a little trouble toward the end of his term. Some of his appointees, it seems, took a Department of Housing and Urban Development Federal Block Grant program and turned it into a "geared to the greedy, not to the needy" campaign to remodel their friends...
Cantabrigians who think the level of military spending is exhorbitant now have the chance to say so officially. But it won't count...
...Mansfield, the year in which the nominating process worked most effectively was 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson were "two high-caliber candidates chosen by high-level party officials, not primaries." Wilson agrees, adding that it and the 1948 Truman-Dewey contest "were elections in which both parties picked their strongest candidates," thanks to the influence of party officials...
Even after having chosen Carter or Reagan, more than half of the voters say they have reservations about the abilities of their candidate. And the level of deeply committed support is extremely low; few cowbells are being rung at rallies throughout the land this fall. Sixty-one percent of the voters admit being unmoved by anyone in the race. Although this remains a somewhat grim and unhappy election, the fact that the decision will at long last be reached next week has heightened national attention and made even more important the presidential debate this week. Slowly, quietly, the patterns...