Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Jerry Brown's vision of a "New Economic Order" does not seem to be drawing in the votes. His chief problem remains the "small is beautiful," save-the-whales and damn-the-torpedos image he has built for himself. "He's a man," says G.B. Trudeau's Rick Redfern in yesterday's Doonesbury, "who takes positions not because he believes in them, but because someone told him he had to have a few to run for president." What Democrats don't want is an easy target. And with that kind of sentiment prevailing, Jerry Brown isn't going anywhere...
...significant, Carter's and Kennedy's workers say. Franks says Brown has drawn some liberal support away from Kennedy as a result of his strong anti-nuclear stand. Although that support may help Brown in New Hampshire, Stearns is not particularly alarmed. He notes Brown's organizational and financial problems: "Their problem is ours magnified...
...Reagan's problem is largely age--but not so much biologically as rhetorically and ideologically. He speaks from a creaking, World War II perspective; his rhetoric has a rusty edge to it--broadcast from a different, simpler day when things didn't insist on being complicated. In New Hampshire, it may prevail but in the real world, it is losing its appeal...
...election results underscored Canada's regional voting preferences. The Liberals prevailed in all but one seat in Quebec, but failed to win a single seat west of Manitoba. When Trudeau composes his cabinet, he will face a problem parallel to one Clark faced: equitable regional representation. Whereas Clark had to struggle to find legitimate Quebec cabinet ministers, Trudeau will have to search for Westerners. Already there is a growing fear in the resource-rich West of political isolation; and there are rumblings of separation...
...Terriers will probably do just that, and their only problem may be that Northeastern has similar plans...