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...Carter strategy calls for him to spend much of his personal campaigning after Labor Day in a baker's-dozen large, pivotal states with a total of 291 of the 538 electoral votes: California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin. Considerably less effort will be made in 14 states in which Carter's aides anticipate almost certain victories; at this point, they foresee defeat in only six states, with a total of 27 electoral votes: Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming...
Carter also has to build up his support among blue-collar ethnics and Catholics, who make up about a quarter of the electorate. Catholics traditionally vote Democratic, but many of them are suspicious of Carter, as was reflected in his poor primary showings in heavily Catholic Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island. The church hierarchy and many lay Catholics are offended by Carter's middle-of-the-road stand on abortion. He opposes it, but refuses to back a constitutional amendment banning abortion because he believes that women have a legal right to decide for themselves. Last...
...Jersey's 108-member delegation, which had supported Hubert Humphrey and Jerry Brown, shifted behind the winner on election eve at the insistence of State Chairman James Dugan. After Carter's 35-minute appearance before the group Wednesday, Jersey City Mayor Paul Jordan declared: "There had been a sense that Carter was light and superficial. But he came across as thoughtful, intelligent and sincere...
...formal affirmation of the change was undramatic. Placed in nomination by New Jersey Congressman Peter Rodino, whose high-pitched voice was ill-equipped to combat the hall's poor acoustics and chronically inattentive audience-but whose Italian background and Watergate impeachment role were subtly suited to the politics of the moment-Carter swept to his expected first-ballot nomination. Because Massachusetts, apparently confused on its vote count, at first abstained, the honor of putting Carter over the top fell fittingly to Ohio, where Carter's late primary victory wiped out all lingering vestiges of a stop-Carter movement...
...GEICO's size could run up such a loss in one year without Wallach saying 'Hey, fellas, what's going on here?' " In May GEICO directors ousted Chairman Norman L. Gidden, 59. New Chairman John J. Byrne, 44, has pulled GEICO out of New Jersey-a dismally unprofitable state-and pledged to trim by 20% the 2.4 million auto policies in force (there are 400,000 homeowner policies too). Byrne is also eager to get rate increases wherever possible; even before his arrival, GEICO had won a 40% increase in New York...