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When these commentators try to gauge whether Anderson's support is a "movement" that might fire an independent race after the GOP rejects him, they sometimes compare student enthusiasm for him to past surges for former Senator Eugene McCarthy and Sen. George S. McGovern (D--S.D.). But in the absence of a burning emotional issue like Vietnam, the Anderson campaign is distinguished less by moral fervor than by intellectual smugness. There is a second anti-draft candidate today, but the attention he attracts is due too much to the magic of his name with the sub-rational masses, while Anderson...
There usually aren't enough Republicans voting in Cambridge to make much of an impact, but many Independents requested the GOP ballot Tuesday, setting up a landslide for Anderson. Of 5755 votes cast, Anderson collected 3697. Bush was second with...
...Iowa, Anderson stood alone among GOP candidates in supporting the grain embargo of the Soviet Union. In New Hampshire he is a maverick supporting gun control. Some may quibble about Anderson's metamorphosis from "conservative" to "liberal"; but he does not differ from other campaigners for difference's sake. His willingness to state publicly his regret that he voted in favor of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution at a time of swelling militarist sentiment provides evidence that Anderson could resist the often overwhelming temptation to military intervention. Furthermore, his many years of congressional experience offer another vital prerequisite...
...quite different. They were counting on knocking out any serious opposition early on--like in the first three primaries. But at the time, Sears and other Reagan backers thought only Baker and Connally could threaten the candidate. Sears brushed off Bush as a man with no constituency in the GOP. "If Reagan wins early, that's the ball game," William Russo, political coordinator for Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.) agreed back in October...
...fogginess makes it easy for staunch conservatives to choose to place their votes elsewhere in the quite extensive array of arch-conservative Republican candidates. Few real issues significantly separate him from his GOP competitors. A January survey of 225 corporation presidents conducted by Dun's Review showed as much support for Bush as for Reagan, Connally and Anderson combined...