Word: turnouts
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Concord or in Manchester, signs for Reagan and Carter are hard to find. Clearly, the focus of attention has shifted to tight and emotional local races more likely to produce a high turnout. The signs for the state campaigns abound: Gallen vs. Thompson for governor, Durkin vs. Rudman for Senate, all the way down to Francis Sheine for Governor's Council...
Although there is a small drift to ward Carter, the race quite clearly is virtually even. The key variable may be the degree of turnout among the sup porters of the two candidates, which the Yankelovich survey makes no attempt to predict. But the poll did ask whether voters were looking forward to Election Day or whether they wished they did not have to make any choice at all. Thirty percent say they would rather avoid making a selection. That figure, moreover, rises to 55% among the undecided, the very group now tending toward President Carter. What is more, fully...
...largest electoral turnout in the country's 32 years of independence...
...paper. The referendum was the first test of Chun's popularity since he took power last December, shortly after the assassination of President Park Chung Hee. Strongman Chun, a former general, and his U.S.-educated Prime Minister, Nam Duck Woo, worked hard to ensure a heavy voter turnout. Roving "enlightenment teams" explained details of the new constitution at more than 3,600 local meetings. The President would be limited to a single seven-year term, for example; any slide toward dictatorship would be checked by new powers granted to the National Assembly...
...Says Pollster Claibourne Darden: "If Carter does not do better quickly, he's through." Concerned with the economy, national image and moral issues, many Southern whites have long been attracted to Reagan. Blacks, while still overwhelmingly pro-Carter, show signs of disaffection that could lead to a low turnout. Admits one senior Carter aide: "Southerners are not going to vote for Jimmy Carter in 1980 just because he is a Southerner...