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...Peoria and the prairies of Illinois last week to urge voters there, and across the nation, to "stay the course," to stick with the economic program that has become the focus of Campaign '82. Of course, Reagan himself is not on the ballot. The election is a typical mid-term medley of House, Senate and Governors' races, each with its own mix of personalities and local concerns. But Reagan is on the road, both as a campaigner and a cause, because the unspoken issue in race after race is the economic program that he and the Republican Party...
National policies rarely determine the outcome of many individual mid-term elections. But unemployment has now become a local issue as depressed communities and neighborhoods are increasingly shaken by the epidemic of layoffs and business failures. Nowhere is that concern more evident than in that symbol of heartland America, Peoria (pop. 124,000, unemployment rate 16.5%) where the Pabst brewery earlier this year locked its gates, the Caterpillar Tractor Co. plant has laid off 8,000 workers over the past two years, and House Minority Leader Robert Michel, who faithfully shepherded the Reaganomics revolution through Congress, is having a substantially...
Back in Washington, Horace Busby, a former aide to Lyndon Johnson and now author of one of the best political newsletters in the country, savored the Chafee story, considered the trench-coated armies of political broadcasters currently unleashed to inflate the significance of this mid-term contest and chuckled. "An off-year election does not have a message outside a Congressman's own district," he said. That is something that Richard Scammon, dean of all election analysts, has contended for years. With only one exception (1934), he noted, the party in the White House has lost seats in every...
...what is Ronald Reagan doing wandering through the unemployed ranks in Peoria? wonders Busby. If there was ever an old and tested rule of the mid-term election, it goes this way: Keep the President at home. Since his party always loses in the off year, the more he campaigns, the more of an issue he becomes...
...Mid-term elections tend to be a variegated quilt of unique local races, with different patterns discernible to different observers...