22—The Daily Collegian Friday, Oct. 31,1980
Carter, Reagan tied in polls; Anderson trailing
, r* i would normally go to the Democratic
Anderson finds
, I * taking votes away from Carter, the
SLID PO TX SI IP PI MU Democrats have adopted a policy of ig
~ ~ noring Anderson as much as possible.
This was the rationale behind Carter’s
refusal to debate with Anderson and
Reagan in September.
Anderson’s ability to undermine
Carter’s re-election chances has led
Reagan to advocate Anderson’s par
ticipation in the debates and support
Anderson as much as possible without
openly endorsing his candidacy.
Fighting the two party system takes
an enormous amount of capital. Ander
son’s campaign has been hindered by a
lack of funds. If he wins 5 percent of the
vote, Anderson will be eligible for
federal campaign funds.
However, the banks have refused to
lend Anderson money perhaps
because of pressure from the Carter
administration.
By LYNDA ROBINSON
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The campaign of independent
presidential candidate John Anderson
has been haunted by the widespread
belief that a vote for Anderson is a
wasted vote or a vote that would only im
prove the chances of Ronald Reagan or
Jimmy Carter.
Because the majority of voters have
refused to take Anderson’s candidacy
seriously, he has spent most of the cam
paign affirming his viability and justify
ing his participation in the race.
Anderson has a strong following
among college students and liberal
Democrats. However, he has been
unable to lure substantial numbers of
•voters away from the two major parties.
He has actually lost support over the
course of the campaign rather than in
creased his appeal. In September,
Anderson had the 15 percent voter sup
port required by the League of Women
Voters to participate in the presidential
debates.
However, the most recent CBS-New
York Times poll gave Anderson only 10
percent of the nationwide popular vote.
Even 10 percent causes consternation
among Carter campaign strategists and
raises the possibilty of the election being
thrown into the U.S. House of
Representatives.
Carter supporters believe Anderson is
siphonir . .crucial .liberal votqs.. that
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John B. Anderson
The campaign has also been affected
by Anderson’s uneven oratory. At times
he is eloquent and persuasive. At other
times he is overbearing and unclear.
The most successful aspect of the
Anderson campaign has undoubtedly
been the legal battles fought by Ander
son’s lawyers to give him ballot access'
in all 50 states.
Yet ballot access does not guarantee
votes.
Anderson is caught up in a dichotomy
he cannot seem to overcome he is the
politician everyone admires, but no one
. , will vote for. ~, -
Reagan attacks
Carter's stands
By LYNDA ROBINSON
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Republican presidential candidate
Ronald Reagan is relying on the coun
try’s troubled economy and the decline
in U.S. power abroad to carry him into
the White House.
With these two issues weighing heavily
on the minds of American voters,
Reagan’s campaign has emphasized the
flaws in the economic and defense
policies of Democratic President Jimmy
Carter.
However, even overwhelming
dissatisfaction with Carter’s domestic
and foreign policies may not necessarily
provide Reagan with an election victory.
Moderate voters are reluctant to sup
port Reagan because they believe he
would not hesitate to involve the United
States in a war.
According to the most recent poll con
ducted by Newsweek, only 23 percent of
the electorate describe Reagan as the
man best able to keep the country out of
war.
Carter has used voter uncertainty
about Reagan as an opportunity to ham
mer away at Reagan’s credibility.
Reagan’s support is strongly
geographical in nature the western
half of the country is generally solidly
behind Reagan.
However, many of the western states
have very few electoral votes and lack
Ronald Reagan
the decisive value of populous industrial
states in the Northeast and Midwest.
Recognizing the need to win at least a
few of the industrial states, Reagan has
campaigned heavily in Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois and New
York.
He has gained considerable support
among blue collar workers but may have
lost substantial backing among
moderate Republican suburbanites who
are suspicious of his conservativism.
Reagan’s running mate, George Bush,
has helped Reagan maintain moderate
support particularly in Pennsylvania
where Bush won the Republican
presidential primary.
The misgivings of many moderate
Republicans about Reagan’s candidacy
have been tempered by Reagan’s move
toward the center of the political spec
trum on a number of issues.
However, in a race as close as this one,
it is the small block of undecided voters
that could swing the election either way.
A CBS News-New York Times poll con
ducted two weeks ago gave Carter a 2
percent edge in the popular vote with
about 6 percent of the electorate still
undecided.
In Pennsylvania, a Gallup poll taken
two weeks ago gave Reagan a 5 percent
lead over Carter with 11 percent of the
state voters undecided.
Pennsylvania is one of the states con
sidered too close to call an observa
tion that also applies to the outcome of
the nationwide presidential race in a
crucial election year.
UPI wirephoto
Carter courts
weak coalition
By LYNDA ROBINSON
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Democratic President Jimmy Carter
is seeking re-election by courting the
traditional sources of Democratic votes
labor, blacks and Jews a coalition
that may be falling apart.
Carter would not have been elected in
1976 without strong support from blacks
and Jews. About 84 percent of the black
vote went to Carter, while about 55 per
cent of the Jewish vote did, also.
Without a similar turnout Nov. 4,
Carter may be unable to win re-election.
The support of these voting blocks is
especially crucial in states like Penn
sylvania and New York. Without a
strong black turnout in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania’s 27 electoral votes may
be cast for Republican nominee Ronald
Reagan.
The same is true of the Jewish vote in
New York City and southern Florida.
Without these votes, New York and
Florida could conceivably give their
combined total of 58 electoral votes to a
Republican presidential candidate.
The labor vote is also vital. Without it,
Carter could lose the key industrial
states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
New York, Illinois and Ohio.
Carter’s support among blacks seems
to be fairly secure. However, Reagan
may have made serious inroads into
Carter’s support among blue collar
workers.
Jimmy
'arter
It is difficult to predict whether,
Reagan’s appeal.to blue collar workers, ,
who are being battered by inflation and j( .
fear of losing their jobs, will be sue-. ,
cessful enough to enable Reagan to win'.,-
key industrial states.
Jewish voters are also restless ..
members of the the Democratic ’
fold. Despite Carter’s role in the negotia- ~...
tion of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty,' .'
Jews are dissatisfied with many of . y
Carter’s policies in the Middle East ana .
fear future U.S. recognition of the
Palestine Liberation Organization. ~w .
Reagan is also challenging Carter’s ’
support base in the South. Many of the’."
white, Christian fundamentalists who .
voted for Carter in 1976 support Reagan :
in 1980. , 7 .
The shift in Southern support reflects:
the dissatisfaction that voters across the Mi
country feel about Carter. His positions >V
on the issues have been questioned far >. (]
less than his ability to implement his ii.
proposed policies.
He is perceived as weak and ineffec
tive by many voters. The most recent
poll by Newsweek indicates that only 24 ’
percent of the electorate describes,
Carter as forceful and decisive. ’
This image may prevent Carter from--■, r■■
being re-elected, especially if it further
undermines the unity of the traditional ;
Democratic coalition. •. i.
As the election approaches, the
strength of the Democratic coalition ]
seems to be reluctantly increasing. ;
However, Carter must restore its cohe- j
sion if he wants to remain in the Oval Of- ;
fice for four more years. , ;
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Specter runs
*■aggressively for
recognition
By LYNDA ROBINSON
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
• Arfen Specter, Republican candidate
for the U.S. Senate, is running an ag
gressive, television-oriented campaign
agaiilst his more widely known oppo
nent; Democratic candidate Pete
Flaherty.
Specter’s campaign tactics have been
, shaped by his lack of recognition among
voters outside.the Philadelphia area.
Helhas campaigned heavily, in central
and .western Pennsylvania and has
visited every one of the state’s 67 coun
ties at least once.
To reach voters who do not read
newspapers, Specter has appeared in
Numerous television commercials that
emphasize his concern for all
Pennsylvanians.
Specter has been successful in increas
ing his name recognition among voters.
However, it will take more than televi-
sion commercials to induce voters in the
* western half of the state to vote for a
politician from Philadelphia.
In. recent years the state has become a
regional battleground between
Pittsburgh-based candidates and
Philadelphia-based candidates.
Western voters have been reluctant to
«/ote,for anyone from the eastern half of
the slate regardless of party affilia
tion.'Without strong-Republican support
in central Pennsylvania, Specter may be
unable to win.
While campaigning, Specter often
refers to his record as district attorney
ijj Philadelphia (1965 to 1973) as an ex
ample of his ability to get things done.
Specter played an important role in br
inging the death penalty back in Penn
sylvania and gained wide popularity by
prosecuting corrupt Philadelphia
officials..
A native of Kansas, Specter came to
Philadelphia after graduating from Yale
Law .School in 1956. He became an assis
tant district attorney in 1959 and receiv
ed national attention by jailing six cor
rupt Teamster officials in 1963.
He was appointed to the Warren Com
mission in 1964 to investigate the
assassination of President John F. Ken
nedy, and he helped to formulate the
single-bullet explanation.
Specter’s stands on the issues are
sometimes difficult to distinguish from those areas unable to revive their
those of Flaherty. However, the two do private sector through business
differ on abortion and nuclear power. incentives.
Specter, who is the more liberal of the ABORTION: Specter says he is per
t\vo on abortion, takes a tougher stand on sonally opposed to abortion, but favors
environmental standards than Flaherty the continuation of Medicaid-funded
does. Neither candidate seems to be abortions for poor women in order to
following the lead of the presidential preserve equal access to safe abortions
candidate on his ticket. for everyone.
Republican Ronald Reagan is more NUCLEAR ENERGY: Specter does
compatible with Democrat Flaherty on not support the shutdown of existing
abortion and the environment than he is nuclear power plants, nor does he oppose
with Specter. building new plants in the future. He
INFLATION: Specter favors alO per- does favor placing nuclear plants in low
cent personal income tax reduction as a population areas whenever possible,
way to spur productivity, investment reorganizing the Nuclear Regulatory
and personal savings. Such a tax will Commission and imposing stricter safe
also reduce unemployment by increas- ty controls. These controls should take
mg national production. Specter also the form of increased training for plant
calls for an end to wasteful federal spen- operators, more research into the effects
ding and overregulation of small of radiation and stringent criminal and
business. civil penalties for negligent plant
UNEMPLOYMENT: Specter ad- operation,
vocates a new tax policy that will en- ENVIRONMENT: Specter does not
courage capital recovery in the private believe that environmental standards
sector. This would be combined with a have to be sacrificed in order to expand
reduction in the number of existing the use of coal. He advocates a one-year
federal business regulations that stifle ' capital depreciation of pollution control
productivity. He also supports greenlin- equipment to provide sufficient capital
ing identifying depressed urban areas to fund the switch to coal-based fuel
and targeting a federal jobs program to without creating pollution.
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Flaherty refuses
to launch attack
against Specter
By LYNDA ROBINSON
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Pete Flaherty, the Democratic can
didate for the U.S. Senate, began this
campaign with an enormous lead in the
polls over his Republican opponent
Arlen Specter.
But'that lead has eroded over the long
weeks preceding the election, and the
race has become extremely close so
close, in fact, that U.S. News and World
Report is predicting a GOP victory for
Specter.
Flaherty’s most serious handicap
throughout the campaign has been his
reluctance to attack Specter on the
issues.
His entire campaign has been less ag
gressive than Specter’s possibly
because Flaherty has not been able to af
ford extensive television commercials.
Specter has outspent Flaherty by two
to one so far this month. He has received
approximately $1.5 million in campaign
contributions compared to Flaherty’s
$400,000.
However, voters perceive Flaherty to
be an honest, hardworking politician,
and this image has made Flaherty a
viable candidate despite his financial
difficulties.
Flaherty’s image was built during his
years as mayor of Pittsburgh (1970 to
1977) when he cut government spending
and balanced the city’s budget every
year.
He has a master’s degree in public ad
ministration from the University of Pitt
sburgh and served as deputy attorney
general in 1977.
Flaherty has an advantage in the elec
tion in terms of voter registration
registered Democrats outnumber
Republicans by 725,000 in the state. But
this edge has made little difference in
the past. For more than a decade, state
voters have elected Democratic
presidents and Republican senators.
However, voters may be more recep
tive to the idea of a Democratic senator
because the Democratic majority in the
Senate is in jeopardy for the first time in
25 years.
The Senate is now composed of 59
Democrats and 41 Republicans, and the
Republicans stand to win as many as
five seats on Nov. 4.
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Flaherty has emphasized the threat of establishment of enterprise zones
a Republican majority in the Senate severely depressed urbhn areas where
throughout the campaign and has stress- businesses would be granted special tax
ed the need for a Democratic senator breaks to build plants and hire
from Pennsylvania to offset Republican unemployed residents. Revival of the
gains'. private'sector to create jobs could be ac-
Flaherty’s views on the issues are complished through policies encourag
similar to those of Specter in many ing the modernization of industrial
respects, resulting in an election based facilities and worker training, he says.
more on personality than on substantial ABORTION: Flaherty advocates laws
differences in ideology and approach. protecting the unborn and opposes
However, Flaherty is more liberal federal funding of abortions except
than Specter on the issue of nuclear where the life of the mother is
power and more conservative than endangered
Specter on abortion and environmental NUCLEAR ENERGY: Flaherty
INFLATION: Flaherty favors a 5 per- believes the accident at Three Mile
.. , Island demonstrates the dangers
cent mcome tax cut as a way to offset the assodated with nuclear H e
increase in Social Security taxes , ~ _ - . .
scheduled for 1981. In conjunction with a favors the shutdown of Plants not
tax cut, Flaherty favors accelerated meeting the new safety standards outlm
depreciation of capital investments to ed m the Kemeny report and opposes the
encourage industry to invest in new construction of any new nuclear power
machinery. He also proposes regulatory Plants.
and fair trade policies to boost coal and ENVIRONMENT: Flaherty supports
steel production. greater flexibility of environmental
UNEMPLOYMENT: Flaherty calls standards to expand the production and
for at least as 6 billion federal jobs pro- use of coal. Industry should be allowed to
gram to rebuild transportation systems write off costs of pollution equipment to
and other public works facilities. This preserve, environmental standards, he
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