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...Lindsay's arrival prompted no deep fear in the camp of front-running Edmund Muskie, only a certain nervousness. If Lindsay enters the primaries, he will mainly damage the most liberal candidates-McGovern, Indiana's Birch Bayh. But, says one Muskie aide, "let's face it, he's got more charisma than anybody out there...
Some Democratic officials fear that a Lindsay candidacy might provoke a schism on the left of the party, which could result in a fourth-party candidate that would divide the Democratic vote and ensure Nixon's reelection. But these Democrats argue that Lindsay has no chance for the nomination anyway...
There is, first of all, a strong reluctance among Democrats to award the highest prize to a newcomer whose transparently timed conversion leaves him open to a charge of opportunism. Only if Lindsay were to win impressively in the primaries and rank high in public opinion polls would the convention find him irresistible. And at the moment, the steeplechase of 23 state primaries beginning next March 7 in New Hampshire does not look inviting to Lindsay. Against a moderate like Muskie from neighboring Maine, New Hampshire would be unlikely to welcome Lindsay. In Florida, where the second primary will...
...Lindsay's worst problems would be the eight mandatory primary states where state officials place the names of all likely candidates on the ballot. Thus he could not pick only hospitable states to enter, unless he signed affidavits disavowing his candidacy. Aside from Wisconsin and possibly Oregon, the state where Lindsay might run best would be California, but its primary occurs so late, June 6, that he could be badly scarred before he even got there. To make a long primary drive, Lindsay would also have to raise a Rockefeller's share of campaign funds-a more difficult...
Show Me. There is also the intriguing question of Lindsay's image in the country at large. Some say his popularity increases in direct proportion to his distance from New York City. Yet he is still rather remote from the rest of the nation. In most of the South, he would be political poison for the Democrats. Says one Alabamian: "He's a New Yorker. That's like being from Red China." The Detroit News denounced Lindsay as "a political transvestite." Still, in California, which will provide nearly 10% of the delegates to the Democratic convention...