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...Crossover. National Democratic leaders were quick to blame Wallace's showing on Republicans who, they claimed, had crossed party lines in droves to vote for Wallace in an effort to embarrass the Johnson Administration. But Wisconsin's Reynolds knew better. Said he in a postprimary statement: "All that Mr. Wallace has demonstrated is what we've known all along. We have a lot of people who are prejudiced." Politically inept as that remark may have been, Reynolds had a point. The real issue in the primary was civil rights. Wallace had entered the Wisconsin primary to demonstrate...
...possible that enough such gestures might embarrass the Soviet government into easing up on the Jews. Recently, after a galaxy of European intellectuals and Communist parties in France, Britain and the U.S. made strong, astonished protests, Pravda announced that the Party's Ideological Commission had criticized Judaism Without Embellishment for its serious mistakes and admitted that it "may insult the feelings of believers." Last week, Aleksei Adzhubei, the editor of Izvestia and Khrushchev's son-in-law, announced that the book had been banned and all copies destroyed...
Much of his vote, it has been argued, resulted from Republicans' attempts to embarrass John Reynolds, both as governor of the state and as a favorite son candidate standing in for the Johnson Administration. There is little doubt that many Republicans did in fact cross party lines (which is easy in Wisconsin) and voted for Wallace. In some upper-income suburbs north of Milwaukee, Wallace ran ahead of both Reynolds and the Republican favorite son, Congressman John Byrnes. Wallace also ran well in the farm and small-town heartland of Joe McCarthy, near Appleton and Oshkosh...
...official explanation offered from Democratic headquarters was that Republicans crossing over under Wisconsin's liberal primary law--anyone is free to vote in either primary--cast their ballots for Wallace in an attempt to embarrass President Johnson. But Wallace's position had some appeal to the voters. It is hard to imagine 250,000 Republicans crossing over to vote for a man like Wallace out of sheer joy of playing a prank on Lyndon Johnson...
Reynolds attributed Wallace's unexpectedly high total to Republicans voting in the Democratic primary in an attempt to embarrass Johnson. Voters do not register by party before the primary in Wisconsin...