POLI 2056 Lecture : Cross To Bear Notes
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La has low income and property taxes in 1983- less oil and gas money, unemployment rising, personal tax increases= edward"s approval rating down. By turning over de facto control of government early, edwards robbed roemer of a transition and a honeymoon. Duke: johnston supposedly used duke"s past to raise black turnout which didn"t work, just gave him more publicity, black opinion- duke is a joke. Chapter 9: jimmy swaggart, once the most viewed televangelist, used to be important endorser, went on trial for a hooker, popularity during trial made him wanted by candidates. Chapter 10: new reconstruction- conspiracy of washington republicans and. Laughable bc the senate is backed by feds so it: seems like roemer doesn"t want to run passes anyway, keeps his stubborn resistance to compromise, turns out the act didn"t hurt roemer at all. Duke: they don"t encourage them to vote for edwards, elections are not usually mentioned in church.
