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...black woman running for the White House would be a bit far out even in an Allen Drury novel-or so it seemed before Shirley Chisholm came on the scene. Last week, in her Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn with California Representative Ron Dellums at her side, the U.S.'s first black Congresswoman announced her candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination-bringing the total number of declared entrants to ten. Why is she running? "To repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote for a qualified candidate simply because he is not white or because...
...Chisholm will have to work hard to prove her point. Black politicians and women's groups are far from united behind her candidacy; George McGovern and John Lindsay are competing for the same liberal constituency; and she has neither financial nor organizational resources to make a serious fight. Chisholm has no illusions; there is already talk of the No. 2 spot on the ticket, or of perhaps even mayor of New York City in 1973. Whatever happens, her bravado is impressive. "Thirty-six or more persons have been President of these United States," she said last week. "Experientially...
...purported strength with organized labor is hard to locate; in New Jersey and New York, says one New Jersey county chairman, Humphrey "hardly shows." That leaves George McGovern in second place in the East-a distant second, to be sure, but far ahead of Lindsay, McCarthy and Chisholm. To Democratic politicians, Muskie's strengths are that he has made few enemies and that he simply looks like a winner...
...Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, Senator Henry Jackson and George Wallace--appear to have little chance of winning in the Democratic Party. In the middle are Edmund Muskie and (ever so slightly to his right) Hubert Humphrey. To their left are John Lindsay, Gene McCarthy, George McGovern and Shirley Chisholm...
...Shirley Chisholm is also making an effort to build a coalition of blacks, the Spanish-speaking, women, and the poor. While her chances of winning the nomination (let alone the election) are very dim, her campaign is important as an effort to mobilize and organize an otherwise slighted constituency. Her efforts in the black community could prove particularly important. If blacks are to gain a real share of influence in the political process, they must set up political organizations which are capable of mobilizing black voters at election time. Turnouts of all ethnic varieties in poor areas have been...