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...half their time plotting against other people," says one of the workers. "It's every bit as bad as the Muskie campaign was." Instead of concentrating their fire on the Republican enemy, many of the staffers have been sniping at one another. One of those hit was Fred Dutton, a key strategist, who has been demoted to coffee and sandwich pusher; McGovern grew weary of his countless memos. Among the more aggressive in-fighters has been Jean Westwood, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. She has occasionally informed her fellow staffers that she is in charge of everything...
...pages. Dutton...
...ally that there were deep and bitter divisions among his advisers over the Eagleton matter. Nobody was enthusiastic about keeping Eagleton; the best that his defenders counseled was a wait-and-see approach. Press Secretary Dick Dougherty and South Dakota Lieutenant Governor Bill Dougherty both favored dumping Eagleton. Fred Dutton, author of Changing Sources of Power: American Politics in the 1970's and McGovern's most thoughtful political adviser, was adamantly anti-Eagleton. An almost Mafia-like atmosphere developed amid the rustic charms of McGovern's retreat, in strange contrast to the serene images of the candidate...
Facelessness. More specifically, Dutton claims that suburbanites and union members now find a new bond in their common concern about "instability, facelessness and congestion" in U.S. society. "Psychic problems are rapidly outpacing economic concerns." The blue-collar workers are "increasingly young, black and female," he argues, and this means that "their concerns are not at all what George Meany thinks they are." Thus, despite the open animosity of AFL-CIO President Meany and other labor leaders, the McGovern staff feels that the Senator can attract rank and file worker support. Dutton also expects McGovern to tap sufficiently a general resentment...
...will be eligible to vote for the first time, partly because of the new 18-year-old voting age. The drive will be helped by a 1970 congressional act that outlaws residency requirements longer than 30 days in presidential elections. Those two legal changes mean, says Dutton, that "the shape of the ballpark has changed; past patterns are no longer valid." A study by Student Vote, a nonpartisan group trying to mobilize young voters, claims that if only half of the 25 million vote and just 60% of them choose McGovern, this would swing to McGovern six states (Tennessee, Alaska...