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polls," he said. “I thought Mr. Reagan's lead was far larger and holding steady, but apparently it isn’t. Could it be that people are just deciding that nobody could do much better than Mr. Carter, so why change?” "That’s a part of it." agreed the first speaker, “but you know what? 1 think the sleeper in this whole thing is Reagan’s age. Nobody mentions it, but people are nervous about a man starting his first term as president when he’s 70 years old. It worries them.”
“I know it worries me,” said the senior reporter.
"And another thing.” continued my friend, “the Reagan people are making one hell of a mistake. They ought to be concentrating on Ke-yarter’s record and quit all this foolishness about who started what about the Ku Klux Klan, who is a racist and who is running a mean campaign. If they would just keep talking about Keyarter’s record, they could whip him.”
"When one of the fellows was out in Detroit,” said a second reporter, “he filed a story from the Republican convent:«n about a conversation he had with a cab driver, and that cabby may have said a lot. He said, ‘the closer we get to Reagan, the better Carter looks.’ Do you think there’s much of that kind of thinking around?”
“There may be.” replied a third reporter in the group. “What we’ve got this time around is a situation where no candidate has a really fired-up following, or, for that matter, a really fired-up opposition. You take that situation, and there’s not much to make people vote for a change. It doesn’t take much motivation to make them vote to keep things the way they are. but to make them vote for a change
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