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Meet Snik Dixon. Rockefeller figures that without the leaners, Nixon has 550 delegates (needed to nominate: 667). His strategy is to avert a first-ballot Nixon victory. This forces Rocky into an unspoken alliance with Reagan, who still dreams of leapfrogging a Nixon-Rockefeller deadlock to the nomination. Rockefeller's emphasis on the Wallace threat could redound, however, to Reagan's benefit among Southern Republicans. Southern delegates for Rocky are as rare as square marbles, but a fair number might go for Reagan on the theory that his conservatism might be an effective alternative to Wallace. When Rockefeller's aides...
Rockefeller is aware of all his handicaps: animosity over his past unor-thodoxies, disagreement over his liberal tendencies, anger over his current attacks on Nixon. He shrugs them off, maintaining brightly that he has a good chance of getting the nomination on the fourth or fifth ballot. His confidence gets him over spots that would trip a man without it. Nixon, for instance, can be thrown off stride. In Newark recently, a tongue-tied toastmaster introduced "the next President of the United States, Snik Dix?er?Dick Nixon." Result: the candidate's delivery fell off. In a similar situation, Rockefeller...
...varies for different offices, but California requires a Governor to face a special election if petitioners collect signatures amounting to at least 12% of the last gubernatorial vote. On the ballot, alternate candidates are offered in case the official is turned out. In California, such efforts have always failed before. Since the tactic was first applied statewide in 1911,* petitions have been circulated against three Governors, but never were enough signatures collected. Political experts doubt that this drive against Reagan will have much better luck. Even so, the Governor has conceded that the effort alone could be "embarrassing...
Black Panther leader Billy Seal, standing in for Cleaver last night, urged support for last-minute efforts to put Cleaver's name on the presidential ballot in Massachusetts. The deadline for signatures on nominating papers is this afternoon...
...reflect more or less accurately the voters' will. Yet the results of primaries can be nullified by the unit rule, which applies in a number of states and binds all of the state's convention delegates to vote in a bloc at least through the first ballot. Thus imposition of the unit rule can deny a candidate who barely missed winning a majority in the primary any delegate support from the state during the national convention...