Word: mid-term
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...Certainly something happened to Mr. Nixon's Great Silent Majority-or could it be that there is a leak somewhere in the Power of Positive Thinking? Whatever the cause, or causes, had the gains made by the Democrats in the mid-term election been in favor of his own party, I believe the President would have called it not a "working majority," but a landslide. Who was the famous general who cried: "Another victory such as this, and I am undone...
...willing to do business with China, provided that the price is within reason. As a Republican, Nixon can make such a move with fewer political risks at home than a liberal Democratic President would run. He holds the same advantage in domestic proposals like welfare reform. During the mid-term election campaign, Nixon chose to underplay his own program. That fight is over, and the next one will be waged directly on the presidential record; Nixon's public policy and his political needs looking toward 1972 now closely coincide...
SELDOM has one book had so instant an impact on political affairs. The news media have pushed The Real Majority as the fountain of all current political wisdom. Party heads pored over advance copies, and politicians have embraced its precepts. After the mid-term elections, President Nixon complained to his advisors that "the Democrats read Scammon and Wattenberg." The vogue of political tracts of such influence is usually short. Kevin Phillip's The Emerging Republican Majority was the rage a year ago, but has already been discredited. Unlike Phillip's book, however, The Real Majority holds up remarkably well...
...book entirely. The authors are giving a formula for political success which is not the same thing as public policy, but its prerequisite. No matter what a candidate's ideology or general program, the authors assert he must heed certain realities about the American electorate or lose. The mid-term elections are a case in point...
There in microcosm was the contest as it had been played out in state after state. The President had set an audacious test for himself when he transformed the mid-term election into a referendum on his presidency and his person. Thus he traveled 17,000 miles through 23 states (Spiro Agnew logged 32,000 miles across 32 states), and he and his party emerged weaker than before. What is astonishing is how badly Nixon and many of his candidates misread the electorate's mood...