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...Fred Harris, John Lindsay, and even George Wallace. All, in differing senses, were "populists." "Harris, particularly, and to some extent Lindsay were talking about income redistribution and getting a pretty good play in the press," especially from liberal columnists like Tom Wicker and The Washington Post's David Broder, Frank Mankiewicz, McGovern's top political adviser, recalls...
...David S. Broder, chief political correspondent for the Washington Post, based his often prescient columns on a thorough grasp of Washington realities and extensive travels through the country. Broder pinpointed a paradox in the voters' mood: "We're not notably consistent in any respect. We want to keep the Russians and Chinese in their places, but we want to end the draft. We want the benefits of mass production techniques, but we want relief from the drudgery of assembly-line jobs...
...long list of black marks against McGovern: his early waffling on welfare and wealth-distribution, his inept handling of the Eagleton affair, dissension within his own campaign organization, and contradictory statements that called his credibility into question. When McGovern came up with new tax proposals two weeks ago, David Broder noted wryly in the Washington Post that the candidate had "interrupted his devastatingly effective effort to discredit himself as a presidential contender." "McGovern's problem these days," wrote Bob Healy in the Boston Globe, "is that he does not know what he wants...
...Muskie "still in commanding position." In December, New York Times Political Correspondent R.W. Apple Jr. wrote that "all the information at hand suggests Muskie will be hard to stop," and was "in a good position to clinch his party's nomination early." The Washington Post's David Broder labeled Muskie "the most popular Democrat who will actually be in the primaries," and added: "That situation, as John Kennedy showed, can be converted into victory...
...hindsight, it seems that political reporters looked too hard at the candidates and their strategies and not hard enough at the changing mood of the electorate. "The press," concedes Editor John Seigenthaler of the Nashville Tennessean, "missed the depths of voter disenchantment." To his credit, the Post's Broder identified a general malaise among voters that might hurt Muskie, and with a colleague sniffed out the Senator's problems in New Hampshire just before the voting there. But these findings had little impact until primary results began to accumulate. Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak wrote repeatedly...