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Such suspicions add fuel to the independent candidacy of former Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy, who so far has qualified to be on the ballot in ten states and hopes to be running in 45 states by November. Is McCarthy worried about throwing the election to the Republicans? Says he: "To spoil the difference between Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter is not spoiling very much. I hope to make Carter's problems with the liberals worse." Surveys by Louis Harris and Carter's pollster Pat Caddell have found that, in some states, McCarthy could cost Carter between...
This week's convention is the first that either party has held in New York since 1924, when the Democrats nominated John W. Davis on the 103rd ballot in an earlier incarnation of the Garden. The impecunious city government has invested some $3.5 million in the convention, hoping for a return of more than $20 million in business for New York. Among other things, the city is counting on the convention to help repair New York's soiled image, in much the way that the immense and almost unexpectedly peaceful Fourth of July celebrations...
...guest of the President at a dinner for Queen Elizabeth in the White House Rose Garden. Reed expects the Mississippi delegation to vote for Reagan, but admits he certainly would urge it to switch if "it appears Ford is the man" at the time of the first ballot...
...such a spirit of amity, the 5,000 delegates and alternates may find their chief excitement outside the Garden, in the Big Apple that is playing host to its first Democratic Convention since the monstrous marathon of 1924, when John W. Davis won on the 103rd ballot...
...first primary election-for the Georgia state senate -by only 139 votes. Suspecting fraud in one county, he searched for a lawyer to fight his case and was directed to Kirbo, who had by then moved from Bainbridge to a top law firm in Atlanta. Kirbo had the suspicious ballot box impounded and opened. There, sitting on top of the otherwise orderly pile, was a wad of 111 ballots that had been clumsily stuffed into the box. "I could have fainted," recalls Kirbo, who never expected to prove the case. Carter then won the general election by 1,500 votes...