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...advocates of lunchpail politics, no more busin' and Georgian efficiency who had a picnic. And in the Massachusetts Democratic presidential primary of 1976, the disadvantaged had somehow slipped past the minds of the electorate...
...morning after his big victory in Florida's Democratic primary, Jimmy Carter rolled from his bed in an Orlando hotel at 6:15, cranky and out of sorts. This was doubly surprising, because the usually smiling Georgian had just dealt George Wallace his first thumping in a Southern primary, thus erasing the effects of a setback in Massachusetts a week earlier. Moreover, Carter is expected to beat Wallace again in Illinois this week and in North Carolina next Tuesday...
Muscovites look down upon Georgians, he says, and enjoy making Georgian jokes. There is also institutionalized anti-Semitism on the part of the government, which considers Jews to be a separate nationality. Schecter, who is Jewish, says that he never felt the effects of anti-Semitism himself, although he knew that it existed. He noticed that the Soviets also practice the conventional American form of racism. "They are always complaining about our racism, but over there it's just blatant and open," he says. The Schecters made several friends in a special university for African students near their home...
Among the Democrats, the surprising Georgian, Jimmy Carter, seems in a tight race with Arizona Congressman Mo Udall. The pressure is heaviest on Udall, since Carter has already shown strength in early caucus states and could readily survive a loss in New Hampshire. But Udall has been throwing most of his efforts into his gamble for a New Hampshire triumph. For more than a year he has been working the entire state, and he is the best-organized Democratic candidate. This week his canvassers will begin their third round of reaching the 35,000 Democratic households in the largest cities...
...Carter battles to improve his position, some officials at the Democratic National Committee have begun privately to criticize him. The Georgian makes some Democrats nervous because he is running as a maverick; no one knows quite what to make of him at this point or what he will do in the months ahead. For Jimmy Carter, a sure sign of progress is not only the friends he has won but the opponents he has made. They are taking him seriously...