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Democrats are counted as leaders in nine more states. One is California, where liberal Democrat Alan Cranston is far ahead of conservative Republican Max Rafferty in a battle for the seat of Thomas Kuchel, a G.O.P. liberal. Another is Connecticut, though Abe Ribicoff is being pressed unexpectedly hard by Republican Edwin May. Republicans lead in another six Senate races, with comparatively easy victories forecast...
Last week's events escalated the incident over Eldridge Cleaver's course to the level that many liberal Californians have feared for several weeks now. The future of the University and the outcome of the Cranston-Rafferty Senatorial battle are now at stake...
...order" candidate, would be helped immeasurably in his lagging campaign with an efficient settlement of university disorders by the National Guard. Not only would the crisis vindicate his more extreme anti-civil libertarian pronouncements--now under heavy attack from liberal republicans--but it would place his opponent, Alan Cranston, in an extremely difficult position...
...Cranston's wide lead over Rafferty is founded on an anti-Rafferty coalition of liberals and moderates. Cranston is only a lackluster "lesser of two evils" in the Senate race. A raging Berkeley crisis would force him to take a stand on "law and order" which would probably put him too far to the right for enraged California liberals to support...
...number of candidates who have stood fast both against the war and against domestic backlash is small, their caliber is unusually high. Paul O'Dwyer (N.Y.), William G. Clark (Ill.), Harold Hughes (Iowa), John Gilligan (Ohio) and Alan Cranston (Calif.) are five exceptional challengers who have done much to free their party from the likes of Mayor Daley and President Johnson. Similarly Abraham Ribicoff (Conn.) and George McGovern (S.D.) distinguished themselves at the Democratic Convention, while Ernest Gruening (Alaska), Gaylord Nelson (Wisc.), and Franch Church (Idaho) have performed yeoman service inside the Senate...