Word: goldwaterism
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Suddenly, like a brush fire racing out of control, the word crackled among informed Republicans: Goldwater's almost got it.
As Barry Goldwater pulls into undisputed first place in the number of committed delegates to the Republican National Convention, a very distant second place is held down at the moment by the enigmatic governor of Pennsylvania. William Warren Scranton.
Scranton gained sixty-one of his sixty-three delegates in last Tuesday's Pennsylvania Presidential primary. (Two North Dakota delegates have declared for Scranton, and three favoring Goldwater were chosen in Pennsylvania.) The Scranton vote in his home state has been regarded by most observers as merely an expression of...
The vote in Pennsylvania is anything but an over-whelming endorsement of Scranton as a Presidential candidate, While forces backing the unwilling governor had conducted an intensive write-in campaign, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge added to his recent impressive victories by capturing about twenty per cent of the vote with...
This time the A.P. also asked the G.O.P. leaders about their own preferences. In this category, Goldwater led with 722, followed by Nixon with 301, Lodge with 193, Scranton with 191 and Rockefeller with 84.