Word: jersey
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...Michigan center and the Hollywood halfback, as well as for all those candidates who have never tackled anyone tougher than an elusive voter, June 8 will be Super Bowl day. At stake in California, New Jersey and Ohio on the final day of the long season of primaries is a total of 540 Democratic and 331 Republican delegates-and that may just be the ball game. Those potentially climactic contests are examined here by TIME West Coast Bureau Chief Jess Cook, New York Bureau Chief Laurence I. Barrett and Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin W. Cate...
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...contest-Morris Udall is not even entered in that phase of the primary, and the Scoop Jackson and George Wallace campaigns are moribund-there will be a lively scrap in the separate competition for 108 delegates. Udall plans to divide most of his remaining time and money between New Jersey and Ohio. He will probably win some delegates in affluent suburbia...
Carter's stiffest competition for delegates will come from a nominally uncommitted slate led by two highly popular politicians, Senator Harrison Williams and Jersey City Mayor Paul Jordan. Like most of their running mates, they are Humphrey fans. The former Vice President retains a large following in the state, particularly among blue-collar workers and blacks. The Williams-Jordan slate is getting strong organizational help from the party's state chairman, James Dugan, who is feuding with Governor Byrne...
Republicans: The New Jersey G.O.P. had its exercise in fratricide three years ago in a gubernatorial primary battle, and recently has been on a unity kick. Seeking to avoid a serious fight over delegates, party leaders put together an uncommitted slate headed by Senator Clifford Case. Though the slate contains a few supporters of Ronald Reagan, a large majority favors Gerald Ford. The President has the separate popularity contest to himself because Reagan declined to enter. The Case group faces competition, however, from a partial slate running under the logo "former Governor of California...