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Defining the Agenda |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--THE '88 ELECTION: ITS MEANING FOR AMERICA AND THE WORLD |
| Author: Bruce Buchanan |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 3,424 Words, 20,957 Characters |
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Drug abuse. Education. Social Security. Taxes. The homeless. School prayer. Unemployment. The federal deficit. Farm prices. Abortion. Catastrophic illness. Insurance. Inflation. Aid to the Contras. These were the issues that some 6,452 voters in 12 southern states recently said they were "very concerned" about.
Their reactions were gathered by the Roper Organization for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to probe the concerns of people likely to cast ballots on March 8, 1988 - the date of the South's Super Tuesday primary election. Other polls identify different concerns and priorities. But this one is sufficient to make the point: The sheer volume of problems responsible voters must take into consideration before casting ballots is already out of control. It threaten...
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...s in addressing domestic problems. As if this were not enough, we must also find someone with the character and the competence to implement the measures needed to address all these policy questions. By the time the pack of candidates is whittled down to the final two, we can only hope that both finalists pass the character and competence tests and offer genuine options for confronting the issues.
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