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...that evening, but only after Hooks promised to say nothing that might embarrass the Republicans. Hooks urged the Republicans to work for full employment, low-cost public transportation and an extension of the Voting Rights Act, which is to expire in 1982. His plea was politely received by the delegates???again on instructions from Reagan's floor lieutenants...
Quixotically, Brown continued to fight. Said he: "Jimmy Carter, wherever you are, I'm looking for you. I want to debate you." He improvised plans to travel the country in search of uncommitted delegates???for how long was anybody's guess. As he told reporters before leaving Los Angeles to court support in Louisiana: "This is a campaign that emerges as it flows forward, and each day I'll assess what the realistic possibilities are ... It's hard to tell just what all this means." Then he accused Carter of "all of a sudden doing a flip-flop" because...
...Credentials Committee, the A.B.M. movement succeeded in nullifying California's winner-take-all rule, for the moment stripping McGovern of 151 delegates and sending the fight ultimately to the convention floor. There, the matter turned on legal niceties: Should McGovern's 120 delegates???the proportional share he was entitled to by winning 44% of the primary vote
...delegates???80% of them were attending their first convention?displayed a perseverance that astonished convention veterans. They paid attention to issues, argued them, voted and moved on. When the session ended at 6:24 a.m., it was the longest in the nation's convention history...
...hand. It was an assured matter that no candidate, not even McAdoo, would go to the Democratic Convention with half of the delegates instructed. Claims of greater numbers must be taken with a grain of salt. But in the Democratic Convention, with its two-thirds requirement, one third? 365 delegates???can impose a veto on the aspirations of any candidate. McAdoo is likely to control this type of veto against the Smith-Underwood group. The Smith-Underwood group is not unlikely to have a similar stop on McAdoo. The logic of the situation calls loudly for a dark horse, especially...