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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lack of any formal contests plus the difficulty of "writing-in" on voting machines rob today's presidential primary of any great significance. Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) is the only candidate on the Democratic ballot, and Governor John A. Volpe is alone on the Republican list...
...more interested now in achieving black power politically in his native city, where 52% of the 410,000 residents are Negro. As head of the new United Brothers of Newark, Jones said last week: "We are out to bring black self-government to this city by 1970, and the ballot seems to be the most advantageous way. We are educating the Negro masses that this city can be taken without a shot being fired...
...serious. I want to make Indiana more effective. We have not been as effective a force in national politics as 63 convention votes and a 5,000,000 population should dictate." To increase Indiana's political heft, Branigin means to control those 63 votes during the first ballot in Chicago, and to do that he must beat Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy in the primary. If, along the way, he became the party's candidate for Vice President, well, says the Governor about half seriously, "stranger things have happened...
Three policy questions will also appear on the ballot. Two concern Vietnam and one the "urban crisis...
Supporters of Socialist Workers Party candidate Fred Halstead are organizing a write-in on the urban question, asking for black control of ghetto areas. Halstead is on the ballot...