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Oregon provided the fringe on top of his rolling bandwagon. Pitted for the first time against a field of four, Kennedy registered a knockout. Favorite Son Morse waged a campaign of savage personal attack, which Kennedy ignored. The names of Hubert Humphrey, Stuart Symington and Lyndon Johnson were all listed on the ballot, though the three refused to campaign. Adlai Stevenson was an unwilling ghost candidate.† When the returns were in, Kennedy had outpointed all Democratic opponents put together: Kennedy, 135,000; Morse, 85,000; the others, a total of 44,000 votes. Unopposed in the Republican primary, Dick...
Brown, another 25% if the Kennedy bandwagon got rolling fast; Adlai Stevenson, Stuart Symington and Hubert Humphrey were reckoned at about 10% apiece, with no known support for Lyndon Johnson. After studying the results, Kennedy finally bowed out of the California primary last week-taking his half-loaf instead of stirring the wrath of California Democratic leaders, who want to avoid an expensive, party-splitting fight...
...Magnetic Bandwagon? Lending credence to that view and Kennedy's own optimistic palmistry was a private poll taken in Wisconsin for Nixon and for Republican Strategist Len Hall. The poll showed Kennedy leading Humphrey by a surprising margin: 62% to 38%. Reasoning along with the Kennedy forces themselves, top Republicans were ready to grant that a big win for Kennedy in Wisconsin would virtually sew up the Democratic presidential nomination for him; for a Kennedy sweep there would quickly bring most of the Northern fence-sitting Democratic bosses around the U.S. racing to get on the magnetic bandwagon...
Your "Rolling Bandwagon" [Jan. 18] blared out the same note unnecessarily loud and long. The use of the word Catholic six times in a single brief article of a political nature does more than underscore religious considerations; it makes them paramount...
...ended Hoosier Wendell Willkie's bid for a second nomination in 1944; their votes for Minnesota's Harold Stassen stopped the 1948 campaign to nominate General Douglas MacArthur; the vote for California's Earl Warren (locally viewed as Dwight Eisenhower's standin) slowed the 1952 bandwagon of Ohio's Senator Robert Taft...