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...Hatch, and former Sen. Edward Brooke), and where there are plenty of independents who may subscribe to Anderson's new political blend. He has also canvassed heavily on the state's college campuses--another reason he might finish a respectable third, and perhaps even second, in the state's GOP primary...
With a mere 20 per cent of the voters marking Republican ballots in '76, GOP candidates aren't likely to sink many hard-won dollars into a media blitz this year. If Bush wins (and with his well-oiled Massachusetts campaign machinery, he could capture 35 per cent of the vote), the victory will simply help him shift into higher gear and take in more contributions from his increasing number of college-educated, upper-income supporters. Others can write off the state beforehand and blame Bush's Andover and Yale backgroung for a strong New England showing...
...voted for the Kemp-Roth tax bill, which would have cut personal tax rates by a third, who voted against the Common Situs Picket bill, the most important piece of labor legislation in ten years, who supported the Vietnam war through the 1960s and who was elected by his GOP peers to the chairmanship of the House Republican Conference...
With charm and zeal, Bush gains the GOP's front four...
...Strout writes on November 1, 1948, "In a hopeless battle, (Truman) stayed game to the end, and is going down fighting." And on November 16, 1968: Nixon "will probably wind up Vietnam pretty quickly." Occasionally, however, Strout springs some real clairvoyance. In January 1968, he not only says the GOP will select Nixon, but predicts he will offer a secret plan to end the war inexpensively. Right on the money...