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Candidates trade Views in debate
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The voters would decide who was right and such pollsters as the Gallup organization planned to survey quickly for their verdict. Sixteen years ago, John Kennedy easily defeated Richard Nixon in similar surveys after their first debate and grabbed the lead in presidential polls soon after.
in the first such survey released only minutes after the debates ended. the Roper organization polled 600 persons nationwide and found 39 per cent who thought Ford did better. 31 per cent who thought Carter did better. and 30 per cent who thought it was a draw.
The two candidates get their second shot at each other Oct. 6 with a debate confined to foreign and defense policy. The third. open to any subject takes place Oct. 22 and a fourth debate. between their running mates. comes in mid-October.
Thursday's confrontation was confined to questions on domestic
and economic issues and led to
some rough personal exchanges of issues of federal spending for unemployment relief, Ford's
veotes of 56 bills and his claims a
Carter administration would _
waste billions on frivolous social programs.
One of the roughest exchanges came near the end. when Ford said putting Democrat Carter in the White House to work with a Democratic Congress would be “contrary to our system of checks and balances...we will have greater budget deficits.‘ with more spending and more unem- ployment."
“it's not a matter of Democrat and Republican- it's a matter of leadership." he said.
“...Mr. Ford quite often puts forward a program as a public relations stunt and then won't work with the Congress to get it passed."
Then he said even Nixon had better working relations with Congress.
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Temple University students serve as stand-ins for the candidates as final touches are put on the Philadelphia theater where Thursday night's Presidential debate was staged. (UPI Photo courtesy of the
Wlllimantic Chronicle)
UConn digs in, misses debate ’s fire
By DAVID E. DECAPRIO The campus fell silent last night at 9:30 p.m. as President Ford and Jimmy Carter aimed their verbal artillery at one an- other in a debate in front of an
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Students sit quietly in the Student Union Lobby Thursday night with their attention keyed to the first of
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l00 million people.
The "question-and-answer ses- sion," as one UConn student put it. evoked little in the way of response. with the exception of laughter or shouts of disbelief at the candidates’ statements.
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The laughter and shouts were the reaction of students across the UConn campus. as they huddled around television sets to watch the first of three 1976 Presidential campaign debates between Re- ublican candidate President
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Ford and Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter.
The first _emotional release came when Carter mistakenly referred to the “great depression of the 1940's." it only took one snicker to get the entire room laughing.
After hearing Carter's slip-up. the room again went dead. with
, the viewers once again held
spellbound. From the ‘expression- less faces. it seemed neither speaker was making any signifi- cant point.
As the debate continued. Car- ter seemed to inspire snickers every time he opened his mouth.
For the most part. students continued to watch the debate in the hope of hearing either candi- date say something of major importance.
Dave Katz. a fifth semester marketing major, summed it up. saying “Carter was vague and used too much rhetoricfl refer-
ring to the Democratic nominee's
repetition of “unknown figures."
“Ford was too interested in putting money in the taxpayer's pocket.” he added.
in general. students took a skeptical attitude toward the pur- pose of the debate. saying that it accomplished nothing.-
Several students said “the candidates didn't argue against each other." They added. "There was not enough spontaneous reaction between the candidates and. as a result. their faults didn't show up."
Besides a lack of spontaneity. there was also a lack of emotion. partly because of a ruling that didn't allow television cameras to show immediate public reaction.
Ron Boisvcrt, a seventh semes- ter biology major. said. “The debate was like watching two simultaneous commercials."
Judging from the student reac- tion. the first of three scheduled Presidential election debates was at best boring. and left the viewers indecisive.
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