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Even more distressing for Republicans are the West Coast findings. In a three-man race in California, Oregon and Washington, Edmund Muskie is favored over Nixon by 59% to 33% of the vote, with 8% going to George Wallace (see TIME Election Survey, page 24). Forty-two percent of those sampled in these states would vote against Nixon regardless of his opponent. In the Middle Atlantic and New England states, 38% of the voters are resolutely anti-Nixon. Across the nation, 65% of the nonwhite vote would go to the President's opponent...
...five months since Senator Edmund Muskie started going all out to get the Democratic presidential nomination, his candidacy has steadily gained momentum. There were some rough months for Muskie when he ran short of campaign cash. Now, however, he looks increasingly like the man who will grab the brass ring at Miami Beach in July. In Las Vegas, Soothsayer Jimmy ("the Greek") Snyder is giving 2 to 5 odds that Muskie will be the nominee...
...large Midwest states the smoothly functioning Edmund Muskie organization makes him the leader in the race for the nomination. The Muskie candidacy also has drawn an array of impressive endorsements from Midwest political leaders. His Polish origins make him popular in the ethnic wards of Chicago, Cleveland and Milwaukee. Rural voters have been impressed by his folksy manner. Only in Minnesota and South Dakota, Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern territory, is he lagging behind...
...millions of non-union workers-including many highly paid professionals and executives-feel that their employers are only too willing to hold pay increases to the guideline, or less. Democratic presidential candidates have already begun to make the question of equity in Phase II a campaign issue. Says Senator Edmund Muskie: "There is reason to believe that the total effect of the program is less on prices than on wages, and there is going to be an eye raised as to the credibility...
...scattered questions about his campaign afterwards, and in particular about a Boston Globe survey which showed him trailing Senator Edmund S. Muskie (D-Me.) in New Hampshire, McGovern questioned the accuracy of polls in primaries and said he expected to do better than 18 per cent...