Word: mccloskey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McCloskey would consider a vote of 25 per cent as a successful display of support for his candidacy. "We will interpret a vote of 25 per cent as an incentive to go on and a vote of 30 per cent will mean we are on the offensive and that we will go on to primaries in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Oregon, California, Rhode Island and Washington, D.C. and North Carolina, New Hampshire campaign manager Mike Brower explained. McCloskey has a permanent staff of about 16 people, with 60 volunteers coming up on weekends and over 60 more recruited on a full time...
...preferential poll conducted by the New Hampshire Television Network shows that the McCloskey campaign does have a slight chance for success. Fifty-nine per cent of N.H.'s voters have registered Republican; yet of these only 31 per cent have voiced support of Nixon who places first, followed by Muskie with 15 per cent. It is the remaining 28 per cent that McCloskey hopes to work on. What is more, McCloskey headquarters have heard a contradictory, but even more encouraging report that the President's polls in New Hampshire show McCloskey creeping over the 20 per cent mark...
...McCloskey campaign in New Hampshire is perhaps the most important of the liberal candidates since he alone poses a threat to Nixon's party nomination. Haunted by the spectre of the impact of the McCarthy victory against LBJ in '68, Nixon has decided to revise his schedule so that he will campaign at least three or four days in the state...
...present McCloskey is content to work within the Republican party and is not considering a party switch (a la Lindsay) or a fourth party candidacy. Referring to his strong belief in the two-party system he said. "If the present trend continues, it spells the death of the Republican Party. In my judgment, the two party system is one of the basic strengths of our political system, but only when both parties are vigorous and healthy." He refuses to say whether he will support Nixon if he wins the nomination, "If you fight right, you do not think about losing...
...hope of the McCloskey campaign is to attract the idealism and energies of the young voters. "If I win in March, it will be with the help of the young people." Yet McCloskey has had a hard time relating to college students who tend to be alienated at first by his tough military stance and appearance. Questions of the draft are particularly touchy. Asked if he would submit to the draft now, McCloskey said, "I don't know if I would go in now. Two years ago I would have said it is better to dissent after you have done...