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Each state, big or small, gets 41 bonus delegates if it goes for the G.O.P. presidential candidate in 1972; it is also awarded a number of delegates equal to 60% of its electoral vote. Since the smaller Southern and Western states are more likely to vote for the President than the larger industrial ones, the smaller states stand to gain the most...
...Bonus Plan. The evidence as the convention got under way was not reassuring. While the President was preparing his acceptance speech at Camp David last week, efforts to broaden the party base met with defeat. The party did not stand completely still. After hearings chaired by former Florida Representative William Cramer, the Rules Committee voted some long-sought procedural changes. From now on, party caucuses to select delegates must be open to all qualified Republicans. Unless they are required by state law, assessments can no longer be charged to delegates, who sometimes have had to pay as much...
...more important issue of delegate allotment, the conservatives proceeded to turn back the clock. Last April a U.S. district court declared that the Republican practice of giving bonus delegates to states that had gone Republican in the previous election is unconstitutional. But that did not stop conservatives from approving a variation of the bonus plan initiated by Texas Senator John Tower and New York Representative Jack Kemp. The new formulation favors Southern and Western states because Nixon is more likely to win them. These states would be overrepresented in 1976. Complained Charles Lanigan: "This plan freezes the Republican Party into...
...postponed the session. He was evidently irritated by a McGovern interview in TIME last week, in which the candidate said that he had to make a "deliberate effort" to ask support from party regulars, an effort that was apt to "offend tender skins." But McGovern did collect a welcome bonus from another party regular; Lyndon Johnson broke his long silence by endorsing the Democratic ticket, even though he noted: "It is no secret that Senator McGovern and I have widely differing opinions on many matters, especially foreign policy." This week, McGovern will make a pilgrimage to the L.B.J. ranch...
...states that went Republican in the previous election or elected a Republican Governor or Senator get six bonus delegates. Thus the bonus doubles Alaska's normal delegate strength (6), but only marginally increases Ohio's (50). A district court has ruled the procedure unconstitutional, as a violation of the equal protection clause ot the 14th Amendment...