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Maybe the inside dopesters have contacts the rest of us don't. Maybe they know more about what Mayor Daley is thinking than we do. No one can judge that. What we all can judge is their record: the prediction of a centrist "Real Majority," the dismissal of McGovern as "not a serious candidate," and the claim that Muskie was unstoppable as long as he didn't move too far left. Looking at these things, and at the evidence piling up against their latest reports of McGovern's unacceptability to Democratic regulars, one begins to suspect that the knowledgeable columnists...
...doubtless help him in this week's primaries in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine pledged to stop the bombing of the North and withdraw all troops from Indochina, in return for the release of U.S. P.O.W.s, "within 60 days of my inauguration." Hubert Humphrey, his chief centrist rival, knows that he is tarred with having been Lyndon Johnson's Vice President, and having turned from hawk to dove. He told a hissing University of Pennsylvania audience last week: "I hope some of you will have the courage to change your mind when you find that what...
...believe the people of this country are tired of the old rhetoric, the unmet promise, the image makers and the practitioners of the expedient. The people are not centrist or liberal or conservative. Rather, they seek a way out of the wilderness...
...pack, he will be badly, maybe fatally scarred by his snapping rivals. The pile-up of names on the ballot gave an unforeseen boost to George Wallace, who won in Florida because the vote was split so many ways. Wallace might be contained if some of the liberal or centrist candidates quit the race. But on the eve of Wisconsin, only Vance Hartke, after getting 3% of the vote in New Hampshire and .3% in Florida, has had the grace to get out of a contest he never had a chance of winning...
Through New Hampshire and much of the Florida race, Muskie ran a gingerly centrist campaign, ignoring issues and appealing vaguely for "trust" and "confidence." In Illinois, after...