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...most recent New York poll shows the three candidates running neck and neck and neck. The New York Times has endorsed Goodell, but the Agnew attacks can be expected to grow sharper as the election nears. Right now it's a tossup, but with the liberals split all to hell, Buckley could be the next Senator...
...Agnew's attack on Goodell is helping the third candidate, Conservative James L. Buckley, brother of Yale graduate William Buckley. Buckley is the clear favorite of the Administration. Agnew has all but endorsed him and many Republican leaders around the state are whispering his name lovingly. He is a strong supporter of Agnew, Our Boys in Vietnam, God, and the American...
NORTH DAKOTA: Liberal Democratic Senator Quentin Burdick is in deep trouble in a state where Agnew is a magic word. Burdick's opponent is Rep. Tom Kleppe who says he is running "because President Nixon asked me to." The war, social legislation, and the economy are major issues, with Kleppe against all three. He has secured the aid of Harry Teleaven, the Madison Ave. executive who directed the advertising campaign of Richard Nixon in 1968. Kleppe is favored...
UTAH: Lacklustre Senator Frank E. Moss is in the same kind of trouble as his neighbor Howard Cannon of Nevada. Moss faces a strong challenge of a conservative, Administration backed Republican, Laurence J. Burton. Burton has made full use of the Agnew techniques and of Agnew himself, and in Utah this is powerful medicine...
Like Cannon, however, Moss may benefit from the Agnew visits to the state. Utah voters are deeply resentful of "outsiders" and the Agnew visits could backfire. Moss will also benefit from his record as an opponent of cigarette advertising. Utah is a Mormon state and the Mormon church forbids cigarettes. A third factor in Moss's favor is the third party candidacy of Clyde Freeman. If Freeman can win five per cent of the vote or more, it should cut Burton's vote enough to hand the election to Moss. If Freeman run poorly, the race is a tossup...