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Political campaigns are wretched forums for debating economic policy. Passionate partisan oratory invariably oversimplifies, when it does not downright distort, what by their nature are formidably complex issues. And that is the case, in spades, for the mid-term election campaign now plodding toward its conclusion at the polls next Tuesday...
...gets serious. With less than two weeks to go before the mid-term election, the preliminary sparring is over, and the candidates are trading their heavy punches. The prize is a big one: preservation or destruction of the conservative coalition that has enabled President Ronald Reagan to put most of his programs through Congress...
...doubt, but very skeptical that either he or his Democratic opponents have any convincing answers to the problem of how to put people back to work without rekindling inflation. Thus while Democrats almost certainly will increase their representation in Congress, as the out-party nearly always does in a mid-term election, the extent of the gains is difficult to predict...
...backing them 46% to 44%. Analysts note that women generally have favored the more social service-oriented Democrats. But now, says Harris, "women are deserting the Republicans in droves." If the Democrats pick up 15 to 25 House seats (the average for the party out of power in mid-term elections since World War II is twelve), Harris says, "a surge of women toward Democrats may be among the top two or three reasons for that gain...
...with a crucial mid-term election only six weeks away, the Democrats have used the confirmation of Feldstein as a lightning rod for their criticisms of Reagan's economic policies--the major theme of the campaign...