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...will-or can-Carter go in paying off his debt to blacks? Political Analyst Richard Scammon believes the obligation is exaggerated. Many more whites than blacks voted for Carter, he emphasizes. "If Carter had not had the black vote, he would have lost," said Scammon. "But if he had not had the white vote, he would have lost...
...hard fact of political life in the U.S. that the poor and disadvantaged fail to show their strength at the polls. Political Analyst Richard Scammon, coauthor (with Ben Wattenberg) of The Real Majority, estimates that as many as 80% of the 80 million to 90 million Americans who will vote in this election could be middle-or upper-class. What is more, a Gallup poll released last May showed that 47% of those surveyed consider themselves to be right of center, whatever their party label...
Political Analyst Richard Scammon says Carter "is more a moderate New Dealer than a true Populist." As President, he could be expected to concentrate considerable attention on the poor and minorities. In many ways, his basic instincts are quite close to those of two liberals whom he defeated in the primaries-Morris Udall and Fred Harris. (The presidential candidate whom Carter liked best was Harris, though the affection was not reciprocated.) For all his anti-Washington talk, however, Carter does not run against Big Government as such, but against inefficient Government. At bottom, he is in the process of trying...
Indeed, there was even a larger debate on whether the self-confidence has been building all along and the Bicentennial simply provided an opportunity to parade it or whether all the fireworks and songs had actually been a catalyst for something new. Washington's resident joy boys, Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg, who write on political moods, felt vindicated since they have said for years America was never as down as others insisted. "This country listened to Jerry Rubin too long," said Scammon. "We heard from the mass of America on July 4. They have always been this...
...meteorological vagaries commanded unusual attention, part of the explanation may have been that in many other respects the news was exceptionally good. In a Voice of America discussion beamed overseas, such panelists as Columnist Charles Bartlett and Political Demographer Richard Scammon were startled by their unwonted optimism about America's future. For the first time in a long time, the panelists later agreed, they had been talking about the country in terms that were almost totally positive. How come? asked the program's moderator. Scammon replied that, though a great many problems remained to be solved and though...