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...mistakes. Senator Muskie was slipping in the New Hampshire polls before he cried on the steps of the Union Leader. The Muskie campaign was out-organized in Wisconsin and over-extended in Florida. The Senator did not take or communicate clear issue positions; he seemed an indecisive centrist in a political season when the voters decided to demand clarity and candor...
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...M.S.I. (Italian Social Movement), amassed 3,000,000 votes and captured 56 of the 630 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. Based on that showing, M.S.I, could proudly describe itself as Italy's fourth largest party. Since then, party leaders have even claimed that M.S.I, has kept the centrist government of Giulio Andreotti afloat by providing a critical margin of votes in close parliamentary tests. Today, however, M.S.I, is fighting for its very existence. Its leader, Deputy Giorgio Almirante, may be stripped of parliamentary immunity and brought to trial for the crime of "reconstituting the disbanded Fascist party...
With a relatively poor first-round showing, the centrist "reform movement" fell short of establishing itself as a credible non-leftist alternative to Gaullism. Its leaders decided to approach the second round on different tacks. Bargaining for a voice in any new Gaullist government, Lecanuet agreed to withdraw his candidates in districts where they might pull votes away from a Gaullist and thus help to throw the election to a leftist. Servan-Schreiber, hoping that the Gaullists would lose their majority and thus be forced to turn to him and his allies for help, urged centrist candidates to stay...
...Georges Marchais's Communists would be heavy. The final poll, published by France-Soir, gave the So cialist-Communist combine and other leftist parties 47 per cent of the electorate. The Gaullists trailed with 36% (as compared with their 46% popular vote in the 1968 elections); the centrist parties, led by Publisher-Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Rouen Mayor Jean Lecanuet, took 14%. By one reckoning, the Gaullists were assured of at least 225 seats, but there were no guarantees that they would pick up the 246 needed for a bare majority...