Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Segal, a jewelry salesman, voted for Carter "to get the Watergate crowd out of there." But he was distressed by the U.N. vote. "A President doesn't make a mistake like that," he says. He is leaning toward Reagan because "Carter can't make a decisive decision." But some voters are too fed up with Carter and Reagan to back either. Thomas Haughton, who works for the Internal Revenue Service in Philadelphia, has ten children from two marriages. In 1976 he voted for Carter because "I thought he was a dream, like the Kennedy dream...
...will vote for Anderson. Says Haughton: "They say about him being a spoiler. He could win. He could make Reagan lose. He could make Carter lose. It could go to the House of Representatives. It's all right with me. It's getting so that since Truman these Presidents don't do a damn thing. Maybe there's nothing can be done. I always believed in the American dream. But it's not happening. I don't think the President controls the country. On that Iran raid, I could have got a gang here...
Mark Blank, a retired professor of philosophy now living in the Philadelphia suburb of Jenkintown, has already cast an absentee ballot since he is planning a trip to Europe. A liberal Democrat all his life, Blank voted for Anderson. He has only disdain for Carter: "The fact that by comparison Jerry Ford has been elevated to the rank of elder statesman is sufficient reason to vote against Carter." Of Reagan, Blank says: "His economics are incomprehensible. I am a hostage to the future in the person of my grandson, and Reagan's urgings that we be No.l in arms...
...vote for Anderson, says Blank, "is essentially a rebuke to the two parties." Still, he is troubled. He fears that votes for Anderson will elect Reagan. Says Blank: "I guess I'm counting on the fact that the Government will be too paralyzed to be dangerous under Reagan. I think it's horrible that we're put in the position that whatever we do we feel we're making the wrong decision...
...campaign. The contenders first met in 1978, when Dornan beat Peck by only 2% of the vote. Some waggish voters are calling this contest Jaws II. Peck has been aided by such celebrities as Walter Matthau, Helen Reddy and Lily Tomlin; Dornan is relying on contributions from conservatives, plus the help of right-wing Fund Raiser Richard Viguerie, to match Peck...