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...Hyannis, Mass. Sheraton last Saturday, over 300 Republican activists took part in a little-known party caucus and Rep. Phillip M. Crane (R-Ill.) came out on top with 164 votes. The nearest challenger Ronald Reagan received 36 while George Bush took 27, John Connally 24 and Baker 16. Anne Crickshank, a state Republican committee member said Crane's appearance at the Hyannis caucus "definitely helped" him gain the overwhelming majority. Baker, unannounced at the time, did not attend the day-long event...
Generally, the President more than held his own in the skirmishing. As the slow counting finally ended in Florida's complicated caucus balloting to select delegates to a virtually meaningless Democratic convention, it was clear that Carter had decisively turned back the challenge of Kennedy's volunteer supporters. Though the victory was only psychological in significance, Carter's supporters went ahead by nearly 2 to 1 over the Kennedy slate. Carter even took the Miami area, 131 to 57. Yet Kennedy had shown spotty strength: he beat Carter in Tampa, Orlando, Sarasota and Fort Lauderdale...
...discussion, Dr. Sally Lunt, chairman of the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus who moderated the talk urged women interested in running for convention slots to get information on the process from their state party committees...
...office to hold two such Washington meetings a month. In an auditorium jammed with eager reporters in the Executive Office Building, the President seemed uncommonly wary. He passed up any opening statement and virtually challenged his inquisitors to try to pull any news out of him. With the Florida caucus a few days off, they responded by focusing eleven of their 19 questions on the 1980 presidential campaign and on the allied theme of the nation's economic health...
Still, the Brown organization is optimistic. His strategists hope he will place second to Kennedy in the New Hampshire and Massachusetts primaries, and score well in the Minnesota precinct caucus and the Illinois primary. Says Quinn: "If Carter comes in third in Illinois, he's finished." If Kennedy is regarded as too big a spender and Carter as incompetent, guess who will be "a new possibility." If not, as Brown said: "Maybe it will take more than one year. Maybe it will take four years. I'm only 41, and I've got a lot of time...