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...incumbent Democratic Governor, Senator or Congressman has come out for Nixon (whatever their private reservations about McGovern), but several mayors have, including Frank Rizzo of Philadelphia, David Kennedy of Miami, Louie Welch of Houston and Beverly Briley of Nashville...
...view of McGovern's position on economic issues, it is not too surprising that a number of businessmen have deserted him. Among them: Robert Six, president of Continental Airlines; Eugene Klein, chairman of the board of National General Corporation, and a Humphrey backer; and August Busch, chairman of the board of Anheuser-Busch-forsaking the party that ended prohibition. Almost as predictable by this time is the defection of portions of labor. Converts include Teamster President Frank Fitzsimmons; Kenneth Lyons, president of the National Association of Government Employees; and J.M. Calhoon, president of the National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association...
...GEORGE MCGOVERN has maintained his forward momentum during late October, but he could hardly hope to overtake Richard Nixon by Election Day; that is the conclusion of a final TIME/Yankelovich poll, conducted by telephone from Oct. 15 to Oct. 24 among 3,010 registered voters in 16 key states. The survey, which ended just before Henry Kissinger announced that peace was "at hand," showed McGovern picking up only four percentage points over a TIME/Yankelovich poll taken earlier in the month. In the latest sampling, Nixon led by 56% to 30%, with 14% of the voters undecided, and seemed virtually invulnerable...
...Nixon or leaning Republican, the poll showed the President with 318 electoral votes in the 16-state sample alone. That is 48 more than the magic number, and of course he can be expected to get more votes in the remaining states. Even in the unlikely event that McGovern were able to capture all those states now leaning toward Nixon, the resulting electoral votes, combined with the 14 from Massachusetts, would still put him behind Nixon...
...overwhelming consensus that Nixon is seeking. Asked if it would be better for people like themselves if Nixon won by a smaller margin or a landslide, the voters responded, 3 to 2, that they preferred a closer election. One reason seems to be that the people prefer Nixon when McGovern is the alternative but have no great fondness for the President in absolute terms. Of Nixon voters, 62% admitted that they were voting for him as the best of two available choices and not as the man they would most like to see in the White House...