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...votes at the national convention, with five delegate-at-large votes going to the statewide winner. Under the old rules, each district was worth two votes, with the overall winner getting a bonus of ten delegate-at-large votes. (A 31st vote is split between the national committeeman, who favors Humphrey, and the national committeewoman, a Kennedy supporter...
Delegate Selection. In a population of 4,000,000, Wisconsin has about 2,400,000 citizens of voting age. Once sturdily Republican, it is now about half Democratic. In the race for 31 delegate votes, Humphrey and Kennedy both start with half a vote, because the national committeeman (pro-Humphrey) and committeewoman (pro-Kennedy) automatically get half a vote apiece. Each of the ten congressional districts gets two full votes, for a total of 20; the winner of the statewide popular vote gets the ten votes of the delegate-at-large slate...
...primary. Also rumors were flying that the Governor had also had the offer of the national chairmanship of Rocky's campaign in exchange for his support. Reportedly under a Powell ultimatum, Nixon's New Hampshire triumvirate-Senators Norris Cotton and Styles Bridges and ex-National Committeeman Frank Sulloway-filed into Powell's office last week to make their peace...
...reception. After an hour-long trip in a rattletrap bus, Rocky finally caught up with the official welcome from an incongruous dance band (hired by the sea-captain husband of the movies' retired Marion Davies), from a corporal's guard of Cal-Rock boosters, and from National Committeeman Edward Shattuck, who wore a silver and blue pin with the word "Nixon" etched...
...Into his hotel suite for breakfast came a Wisconsin delegation which left enthusiastically with the word that Rocky probably would be speaking "somewhere" in their state on his return from California and Oregon next month. Several Illinois Republican bigwigs dropped in for a chat, and National Committeeman Morton Hollingsworth observed: "I would have no fears as a Republican if he should be elected...