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Reagan is campaigning this time around, but the Bush organization is well-primed. Newly found funds, flowing into campaign coffers since January 21, financed a TV advertising blitz. The organization's efficiency can be gauged by the ultimate variable--the candidate's contact with the people. In his last full day of Granite State stumping, Bush, to the consternation of the press, arrived at each destination five minutes early. The candidate was fully briefed and flawless. At a local high school he cited a poll from the previous week and at the Rochester Elks Club he knew the names...
With a mere 20 per cent of the voters marking Republican ballots in '76, GOP candidates aren't likely to sink many hard-won dollars into a media blitz this year. If Bush wins (and with his well-oiled Massachusetts campaign machinery, he could capture 35 per cent of the vote), the victory will simply help him shift into higher gear and take in more contributions from his increasing number of college-educated, upper-income supporters. Others can write off the state beforehand and blame Bush's Andover and Yale backgroung for a strong New England showing...
JERRY BROWN is no longer "the sort of candidate who could be 20 points down in the polls of Friday, blitz the state over the weekend, and hand you your ass on Tuesday." That's how one Carter aide described him in 1976, when Brown upset Jimmy Carter in five primaries. Those victories, astounding for a man who had been governor of California barely six months, are now distant, almost absurd memories...
...infused by a wit and sweetness usually absent from that genre. Nash lives in what must be the most sodden provincial seclusion the British Isles can offer-the Welsh village of Blaenau Ffestiniog, near which, 40 years ago, the National Gallery secreted its paintings to save them from the blitz. Nash assembles his sculptures from rough tree branches, trunks and slate. His projects include a sculpture of growing trees, topiarized into the form of a dome, a sylvan abstraction that will take 30 years to reach its intended dimensions. What seems so fetching in his work is not just...
Connally, who had hoped to come in third, was embarrassed by his fourth-place finish. He skimped on organization to concentrate on a $125,000 media blitz. But his Texas-style swagger was not really suited to down-home Iowa. Some low blows in his advertising did not help him in a state where the politics are especially clean. (Example: he ran a TV spot that implied that Governor Ray had endorsed him. When Ray objected, Connally had to withdraw...