Word: unpopularity
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...election approached a few brave Democrats came to feel that the problems with the campaign was McGovern himself. "About six weeks ago," recalled Martin Peretz. "I suggested to Frank Mankiewicz that we ought to face up to the fact that McGovern was unpopular. I thought we should set up a Committee called Americans Reluctantly for George McGovern. Lyndon Johnson and Eugene McCarthy would have made ideal Co-Chairmen...
...continual references to the hard unpopular courses he has taken, Nixon prods the voter to assume that his course has also been the right one, since nobody would be so stupid as to advocate something that was hard, unpopular, and also wrong. By such sleights of hand, Nixon has managed to avoid any discussion of the issues with his opponent...
...sometimes does, the President struck a note combining truculence and self-pity. His critics have failed, Nixon went on, "to understand the importance of great decisions and the necessity to stand by the President of the United States when he makes a terribly difficult, potentially unpopular decision...
Those critics might reply that the President's current policies are demonstrably not all that unpopular. The more difficult-and therefore usually the more dangerous-a decision, the more clearly it is the duty of "opinion leaders" to raise questions, doubts and warnings. Whatever the ultimate historical verdict on the bombing and mining, a free press cannot be a cheering section or a propaganda arm of the Government-even if a longed-for settlement in Viet Nam might bring about a truce as well between Nixon and the reporters who, after all, are paid to maintain a critical...
...other side is Rainer Barzel, 48, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union, an able but unpopular politician whose chief problem has been winning trust (see box, next page). Barzel, however, has a deep-running issue: inflation. Prices are rising at the rate of 5.5% per year, a frightening spectacle to Germans who remember the disastrous inflationary days after World War I. Though there is no evidence that Barzel could do better than Brandt at controlling inflation, his party is known for heading the government that produced the Wirtschajtswunder (economic miracle) of the 1950s, a period of rapid growth...