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...March 1972, when I was working for George McGovern and a student at MIT, I wanted to vote in the Massachusetts primary. In those days, students didn't vote in Cambridge so I had to go before the election commission. And they asked all the usual questions--"Where does your girlfriend live? Where is your car registered?" They finally told me to go home, and that I didn't live in Cambridge. --David Sullivan city councilor...
...cannot label Gary Hart," boasts an ebullient supporter of the Democratic Senator from Colorado. Indeed, Hart first achieved national prominence as the manager of George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign. But then Hart won election to the Senate in 1974, with 59% of the vote, and quickly established himself as neither liberal nor conservative on key issues. For instance, he favors increasing the Pentagon budget, especially for more small ships and more fighter-bombers that can operate from small airfields. He also backs nuclear plants, though he thinks that atomic power will eventually be abandoned as too expensive...
...organization of Texas businessmen a few weeks ago invited Thurow to speak to them, but first asked whether he was a liberal or a conservative. The answer: A little of both. An adviser to Democratic Senator George McGovern during the 1972 presidential campaign, Thurow believes in such traditional liberal remedies as stiff inheritance taxes and large public works programs. At the same time, he favors less government regulation. Said Thurow last week: "It's not a simple world. The economy needs less government in some areas and more in others...
...polling makes Caddell optimistic. Carter, he believes, has one huge advantage: the simple fact that he is the President. "This is my third presidential campaign," Caddell notes (George McGovern signed up as the first client of his newly organized Cambridge Survey Research a few months before Caddell graduated from Harvard in 1972), "and I've been on both sides. I'd rather run an incumbent's campaign than a challenger's, at any odds...
Still, at the 1972 convention in Miami Beach, there was a futile movement, supported by a delegate from Georgia, Governor Jimmy Carter, to break California's winner-take-all primary rule so that disaffected delegates would be free to vote for George McGovern's rivals. Explains a Carter aide today: "We made no bones about our motives. We didn't claim that we were doing the Lord's work...