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...cannot figure out whether to go to the left to pick up disenchanted liberals or to the right for supporters of arch right winger Col. John McCarthy who lost the primary to Spaulding. Starting out as a strong Administration critic, Spaulding has retreated from his position since the Agnew attacks on Senator Goodell. The switch has not yet attracted the McCarthy voters, however, and may have wiped out any chance of Spaulding picking up the liberal support he must have to make a decent showing...
NEVADA: Democratic Senator Howard W. Cannon is a chief target of the Nixon-Agnew guns. Cannon has opened himself to the radicalliberal charge by voting against Haynsworth, Carswell, and the ABM as well as for the Cooper-Church Amendment. These votes took courage, for Nevada is a conservative state, and Cannon's opponent, Republican Rep. William Raggio, has made the most of them. Raggio is a strong law-and-order, victory-in-Vietnam man, and his election to the Senate would be a big boost to the Administration. Agnew has made several trips to the state to aid Raggio...
...race is rated a tossup, but Cannon has several plusses which could bring him victory. The two most important are his seniority (12 years in the Senate) and Nevada's traditional distrust of outsiders which may cause Agnew's efforts to backfire on the Republicans...
...JERSEY: Senator Harrison A. (Pete) Williams is a strong favorite over Republican Nelson G. Gross. Gross has invited Spiro Agnew to the state to aid his campaign, a move which is interpreted as a sign of desperation...
...Representative. As a Senator he thought it would be a good idea to be more liberal and veered to the left. He voted against the two Nixon nominations to the Supreme Court; he voted for the Church-Cooper and Hatfield-McGovern bills, and filed his own anti-war measure. Agnew has called him the Christine Jorgensen of the Republican party...