Word: mccloskey
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...Republican ballot, Richard Nixon was opposed by Ohio's conservative Congressman John Ashbrook, who got 1% of the vote. California's liberal Republican Congressman Paul McCloskey, who had already withdrawn from the race, also got 1%. The President scored...
...Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, Indiana Senator Vance Hartke and House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, a late-starting write-in entry, drew a total of 13% of the vote and little encouragement. On the Republican side, Congressmen Paul McCloskey (20%) and John Ashbrook (10%), attacking the President from the left and right respectively, failed to mount any serious threat. Looking on from afar, Richard Nixon weighed in with a comfortable 69%. Only three days after the primary, McCloskey dropped out of the race...
With 90 per cent of the votes tabulated, President Richard M. Nixon had 69 per cent. Rep. Paul N. McCloskey (R-Calif.) 20 per cent, Ashbrook 10 per cent, and comedian Pat Paulsen 1 per cent...
While the 30 per cent of the vote cast against the President is significant, Nixon's showing clearly demonstrates his popularity among Republicans and the efforts of liberal McCloskey and conservative Ashbrook to overtake him seem futile. McGovern claimed Tuesday night he polled well in blue-collar areas such as Manchester, Keene (which he lost to Muskie by 20 votes out of 800) and Franklin (Muskie: 150, McGovern: 139). However, results in heavily working-class Berlin, which Muskie carried by more than 2.5 to 1, demonstrate that Muskie is still quite strong in blue-collar areas...
...President faces two challengers, Pete McCloskey on the left and John Ashbrook on the right, but no real challenge to his renomination. But the opposition camp is alive, in the best brawling tradition of the party of Andrew Jackson, with the sound of head-butting. A baker's dozen candidates are vying for the Democratic nomination under the stimulus of new party reforms that will take them more places than ever before...