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...News Special. Reporting on the Wyman-Durkin election run-off in New Hampshire on Tuesday. Read Why Wiley Will Win on the Ed Page today...
...vote for the far right-wing American Independent Party candidate is a good deal higher than expected, New Hampshire is going to elect former Republican Congressman Louis C. Wyman to the Senate tomorrow. Although all polls up until today have shown Wyman and his principal opponent, John A. Durkin, a Democrat who served as state insurance commissioner, in a virtual dead heat, a critical error of strategy by Durkin will probably cost him the election...
When the closeness of the original vote last November forced the establishment of a Senate select committee to review several hundred contested ballots, Durkin opposed efforts to have the first election voided and a new special election declared, preferring to cast his lot with the Democratic majority in the Senate, and on the committee. Since the first vote count in New Hampshire after the election had shown him the winner, though only by ten votes, this was not an unreasonable position; after all, winning by a little is still winning, as Lyndon Johnson proved in 1948. But when it became...
...second Durkin campaign has benefited only a little from what in other states would be a political godsend--Wyman is presently under investigation by the Justice department for his role as a middleman in the deal to make Mrs. Ruth Farkas ambassador to Luxembourg in return for a six figure contribution to the Committee to Relect the President in 1972. Wyman, who has virtually acknowledged the legitimacy of the charges, has been kept very much on the defensive on this issue, claiming simply, "I don't believe I broke any laws." But polls indicate that New Hampshire voters, who never...
...CAMPAIGN has been extremely heated throughout, with each candidate charging the other with being a tool of out-of-state interests, Durkin calling Wyman a lackey of the big corporations, and Wyman accusing Durkin of serving "big labor," pointing to the AFL-CIO's $70,000 contribution to the Durkin campaign. Probably neither side scored any points with these too often repeated charges; nor is it likely that William Loeb and his Joe McCarthyite Manchester Union Leader will have a significant effect on the outcome. The Union Leader has however been making an all out effort to defame and misrepresent...