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...leaders swept to victory by sizable margins. In the process, they padded their already fat leads in numbers of delegates and disheartened their rivals. Among the Democrats, California Governor Jerry Brown dropped out of the race entirely after winning a paltry 12% of the votes in Wisconsin, the chief battleground. On the Republican side, maverick John Anderson won only 28% of the Wisconsin vote, a third-place showing so poor that it wrecked whatever hope he had left of winning the G.O.P. nomination. It also cast doubt on his ability to lead a vigorous third-party challenge, though...
...being a candidate for President, which might further divide my party." Speaking deliberately, he went on: "I am not a candidate. I will not become a candidate. I will support the nominee of my party with all the energy I have." Without having really stepped onto the increasingly bloody battleground of the 1980 race, Jerry Ford thus became its latest casualty...
...tough language about American intentions in the Persian Gulf was deliberate, not to define a battleground but to send a message that this is not going to be a transient attitude. "The U.S. has a broad strategic group of forces," says Carter. Thus he carefully chose and used two words in last week's news conference-"tactics" and "terrain." The U.S., he said, would not allow the Soviets to choose either in any confrontation. Translated, that means that an American response to new aggression might come any place in the world where Soviet interests are handicapped by narrow waterways...
That a poor and thinly populated state should suddenly seem a major battleground is one of the odder quirks of this year's political calendar. The number of votes at stake is insignificant: a mere 10,000 to 15,000 Democrats are expected to turn out for town caucuses next Sunday. They will choose delegates to a state convention in May that will determine how to apportion the 22 votes that Maine will eventually cast (out of a total of 3,331) at the Democratic nominating convention in New York in August...
...same time, anti-draft organizers should learn a lesson from the Sixties: sectarian differences are the worst enemy of those working for progressive causes. Last week's organizing meeting of the Harvard anti-draft group showed signs that it may deteriorate into an ideological battleground between libertarians, pacifists and other sects. Discussion is important, but we hope internecine disputes will not hamper this movement...