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Ethnic voters catered to by candidates
By MARY MYERS
Ethnic purity, Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and loose shoes have brought to light the importance of ethnic identity. Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter weren't ignorant of the ethnic vote before these controversies arose. Significant numbers of votes are to be found among these groups, including black working steadily to woo each vote can be.
Carter's campaign has established "desks" for every major voting interest.
Ford's attention to these groups is being coordinated by a single organization called the National Center for Women.
Ford's strategists say he must win the northern industrial states or not win at all. The President has pinned his hopes of winning these states on the chance of swaying urban Catholics away from their traditional Democratic fold.
Many analysts think that the opinions of church leaders won't necessarily sway the votes of church members. The Time poll mentioned above indicates that as of early September, 48 per cent of Catholics oppose a Constitutional amendment banning abortion, 43 per cent favor an amendment and 9 per cent are undecided.
BOTH CAMPS SEE the winning of ethics as integral to a November victory. These blocs might not make up a particularly high percentage of the nation's voting age concentration in certain states could affect the outcome of college electoral votes.
One in five potential voters is Catholic. The populations of Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York are more than 30 per cent Catholic. If a good portion of these people vote, and if a majority of them vote will strongly influence the direction of electors' five states' 125 electoral votes—nearly half of the 720 needed to elect a President.
CARTER'S CAMP is equally concerned about the Catholic bloc. In the past six presidential elections, Democrats have lost every time they received less than 60 percent of the Catholic vote. That figure might not be enough, because Carter might have strong allies in evangelical Protestants who usually vote Republican.
Catholicists of Eastern European origin usually have voted heavily Democratic, but conservatism among them seems to be growing.
To win the Catholic vote, both candidates have met with church leaders, appointed Catholics to their campaign staff, studied theological texts, and visited heavily Catholic neighborhoods.
A Yankelovich, Skelly and White poll conducted for Time magazine in early September indicated that Catholics supported Carter over Ford, 48 to 37 per cent. He was seen at about the same time stated that Carter had 54 per cent of the Catholic vote.
IN 1964,76 per cent of the Catholics who
THE CANDIDATES TELL the voters what they want to hear. Carter has pledged to support federal aid to parochial schools as far as the law allows. Carter's camp also feels secure with Catholics on the issue of school matters of low- and middle-income families.
Abortion became an issue following the candidate's meeting with the National Congress.
Barner ran into the most trouble with this. Before his meeting with the bishops, he had stated that although he did not approve of a constitutional amendment prohibiting it. At the meeting he modified his position, indicating that he might not rule out every proposed
CARTER THEN encountered antagonism from pro-abortion factions angry at him for changing his position, and from anti-immigration groups who thought he hadn't changed it enough.
The most vocal protesters were those against abortion. Thus Ford, who favors giving each state the right to decide the type of abortion, escaped most of the controversy.
voted, voted for Johnson. This figure eroded to 59 per cent for Humphrey in 1868. By 1972 only 48 per cent voted for McGovern. Not all, but some of this erosion can be attributed to the switched allegiance of urban Eastern European Catholics.
There are some in the Carter camp who fear that northern, urban Catholics dislike Carter's born again evangelicalism. And some observers think that many Catholics are remembering and noting the recent, Catholicism of some Southern Baptists.
Some criticis saw Carter's "ethnic purity" statement as a coded attempt to woo urban Catholics by appealing to their desire to be Catholic. But the same thing Carter had said in an interview with the New York Daily News that he saw nothing wrong with communities of Polish, Czech, French-Canadians or black Americans who were the ethnic purity of their neighborhood.
IN EXPLAINING THIS statement, Carter said that he would fight housing discrimination but that he was against the government promoting "the intrusion of alien groups" into a neighborhood for the sake of mass interation.
Carter was more attacked for his language than for his message. Rep. Andrew Young, D-Ga., called by U.S. News Carter's 'premier black advocate', said the truth of purity "was 'Hiderian' and urged Carter to 'repeat' or lose the nomination.
Vernon Jordan, executive director of the Urban League, called the language "infuriating."
AND SO DID most black voters, apparently. A poll conducted by U.S. News and Wesley in early October said that vote in accorded black voters would for Carter.
Ford's support from blacks probably wasn't hurt very much by Earl Burt' ssl against them, because so few blacks supported Ford in the first place.
When Carter did apologize, many black
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BLACKS HAVE OVERWHELMingly democratic since the days of Franklin Roosevelt. The problem Democrats have to vote Democratic, but to vote at all.
About one in 10 potential voters is black. Fifty-seven per cent of 15 million blacks are registered to vote, compared with 70 per cent of 125 million whites. Black voters are most uniformized "Operation Big Vote" to register new black voters in at least 11 industrial states.
Black apathy this year might be attributed to the fact that blacks think they are victims of race-based injustice, given much attention because major civil rights legislation has already been passed, and the country's sentiment seems to be against big spending for social programs.
DURING THE DEMOCRATIC primaries, Carter was the only candidate to pursue the black vote. George Wallace's campaign disintegrated partly because of the 70 per cent of Florida's voting blacks and 90 per cent of North Carolina's who voted for
staff is 13 per cent black. He has asked black leaders to submit a list of positions they would like blacks to fill in his administration and has promised to appoint blacks to regulatory agencies and as federal judges.
Another bloc both candidates are pursuing is that of the Jewish, which represents a minority group who have consistently high turnout at the polls, and traditionally lean Democratic in presidential elections. But Republicans say any vote from the bloc would by paying a significant number of Jewish votes.
BOTH CANDIDATEHS have visited Jewish neighborhoods, speaking of their support for Israel. Carter flew 100 prominent Jews to Atlanta to ask for their help and advice.
Some Jews dislike Henry Kissinger and his policy of detente with the Soviet Union, which they and some others think misreathes its Jews. Some also dislike the sale of American weapons to Arab nations. These issues hurt Ford's support among Joe Jews.
Though Jews do have a heavily Democratic voting record, Democrats can't count on their undivided support, Jews, perhaps more than other ethnic blocs, carefully analyze issues and positions of both candidates.
But neither candidate can count on undivided support from any ethnic bloc. The blocs mentioned here have usually given most of their votes to Democrats—but the key word is "most." In the close contest coming up, small numbers of voters could make all the difference. And so the wooing continues.
An established and impressive record involving
AS GOVERNOR, Carter appointed 53
blacks to supervisory boards. His campaign
Time magazine says that blacks are drawn to Carter because of his fair treatment of them while governor of Georgia, his Baptist evangelicalism, the presence of several high-ranking blacks in his campaign and his support of programs like welfare reform and national health insurance.
Carter. Carter narrowly beat Morris Udall in Michigan because of black support.
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