Word: democratics
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...road to the Democratic National Convention at Miami in July is paved with a record 24 primary elections and a bewildering array of state caucuses, conventions and diverse devices to elicit grass-roots participation. No Democrat has the resources or the stamina to contest in each of the 50 states; picking and choosing where to run-and how hard-is all-important. Here, in brief, are the principal game plans...
...Almanac's authors first met in the mid-1960s as fellow staffers on the Harvard Crimson. Michael Barone, 27, a Democrat who is now a lawyer in Detroit, has been a demographics adept since he was seven. "I can still remember the excitement of coming across the census figures for 1940 and 1950," he says. "It was like nothing else existed." His collaborators: Douglas Matthews, 27, a liberal Republican who is now studying law at Harvard, and Grant Ujifusa, 29, a political independent and third-generation Japanese American, who is now taking a Ph.D. in American civilization at Brown...
Minuet. The frustration over Viet Nam ought to help such antiwar candidates as Democrat George McGovern and Republican Pete McCloskey. But McGovern backers have had difficulty getting local students to work hard for their man. "I think these kids are into not being radical now," explains Frances Bennotti, a McGovern worker manning a campus campaign table in Durham. Nor does the issue necessarily hurt Nixon. Dick Allison, a tram conductor at the Cannon Mountain ski area, lost a cousin in Viet Nam. He considers the war a tragic mistake, but defends the Administration's pace of withdrawal...
...conservatism-Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, John Tower-who are sticking with the President. "Their loyalty goes to party rather than principle," Ashbrook says calmly. "Their concept is that Nixon is still better than the alternatives." He likes campaigning and manages to find some consolation in almost any adversity. One Democrat complained: "I don't know who I'm for, I just don't want Nixon." Undaunted, Ashbrook replied: "Well, you and I have something in common." His main aim is to press Nixon back toward the right by "holding up a standard for people who still consider...
Ashbrook is not getting too far in New Hampshire. He has the support of ultra-conservative William Loeb's fabled Manchester Union Leader, but lately the paper has been giving more coverage to the fiestier campaign of Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, a Democrat. According to one long-time observer of New Hampshire politics, Ashbrook has given the leadership of his campaign over to the "lunatic fringe" of the state's G.O.P. The polls give him only five per cent of the vote against liberal Pete McCloskey's 12 per cent and Nixon's 69 per cent...