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Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations, formerly an active supporter of democratic socialist policies, is not supporting McGovern and is officially uncommitted...
...Lipset has described McGovern's supporters in the University community as "mushhead intellectuals...
...also wary of McGovern's proposed reduction in the Defense budget. "If we cutdown our production of conventional weapons in the way that he wants to," Lipset argued, we will be placed in the situation of either having to back down or use nuclear weapons if we have a confrontation with the communists in the Mideast or in Asia. McGovern's proposals would bring us one step closer to World...
...Lipset, who is spending this year at the Center for Advanced Behavioral Research in Palo Alto. Calif., is equally disturbed about McGovern's original base of support. "McGovern's early supporters were attracted to him over the sex business, abortion, and marijuana legalization. Essentially his campaign in the early primaries was like a small third party movement," he said. "Now with McGovern retreating from his early positions, he's lost much of his early backing plus having trouble getting the traditional elements in the Democratic party to support...
...meeting of the American Political Science Association last week, Lipset presented data he had collected on the percentage of college professors supporting President Nixon and McGovern. He stated that 46 per cent were backing McGovern and 43 per cent were supporting Nixon, with the rest undecided...