Word: bayh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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UDALL. Together with his second-place finish in New Hampshire, his strong showing in Massachusetts made him the clear favorite among the liberals. As a result, Birch Bayh effectively dropped out of the race. The other liberal candidates-Fred Harris, Sargent Shriver and Milton Shapp-stayed in the running for the present but no longer have realistic expectations of winning many delegates. Even though the liberals seemed to be coalescing around Udall, Idaho Senator Frank Church still planned to enter some of the later primaries, with the goal of picking up enough votes to become a force at the convention...
...financial crunch is hard on candidates as well as on cities. Bayh has closed shop, Harris is suspending activity for two months to raise money, Udall is spending the next month before Wisconsin soliciting funds, Wallace owes hundreds of thousands to his direct-mail firm, Carter is out there hustling short on cash. Jackson is no exception--he had $1.5 million cash on hand as of February 1--on February...
...liberal Democrat is worried about Jackson's foreign policy--their line is that Scoop's the one to start World War III. Jackson still has some liabilities from his bald-eagle stance of the Vietnam years. And yesterday three labor leaders, including Victor Gottbaum in New York, former Bayh campaigners, came out for Udall...
Although the decision to slight Massachusetts in funding came from Bayh's national campaign staff, his people in Massachusetts made a miscalculation of their own. They expected a low turnout in Massachusetts, of perhaps 400,000 Democrats. Despite the day-long snowstorm that hit New England last Tuesday, the turnout was about 680,000--a record for a presidential primary here. In the last few days before the election, Bayh's staff had been hoping its man would pull about 10 per cent of the vote--not a winning share, but enough to keep him alive. They had identified almost...
When he suspended his campaign last week, Bayh did not endorse any other candidates because he felt it would be unfair to his supporters in New York who now had to fight for their own political lives. But he may also believe that Representative Morris K. Udall cannot win and that eventually the Democrats will turn to Senator Hubert H. Humphrey. A Humphrey-Bayh ticket is not beyond the realm of possibility for 1976, and at 47, Bayh's own presidential ambitions are still alive. Maybe in 1980 he will have enough money to make it to New York...