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...although many differing interpretations of the McGovern phenomenon have been advanced, the South Dakota Senator is not considered to be just another Hubert Humphrey by the left. The contrast between his positions and those of Richard Nixon is starker than in any Presidential election in recent memory. The left has been forced to take a stand on McGovern and step on to the unfamiliar terrain of a major electoral campaign...
...recent survey of four major left theoriticians reveals that the Indochina War is the overriding issue for the left, and the one that provides a justification for supporting McGovern either actively or passively. Some of the theoreticians point to the repressive future of the Nixon Administration as another reason to push for McGovern, but the war is first and foremost in their minds. The theoreticians almost unanimously dismissed the South Dakota Senator's domestic policies as merely another extension of benevolent welfare statism...
Left support for McGovern however, is provisional. Radicals intend to continue organizing and agitating outside the system without becoming directly embroiled in "new politics" electoral efforts. The McGovern candidacy has not fundamentally altered the radical critique of electoral politics, but it has prompted a certain flexibility. A McGovern victory will aid the Vietnamese, therefore the left will support McGovern...
Daniel Ellsberg '52, who allegedly leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press, said yesterday he is "working night and day" to elect McGovern...
David Horowitz, an editor of Ramparts Magazine and a noted author and editor, said Saturday that Ramparts has endorsed the South Dakota Senator. "Since the antiwar had created George McGovern, we felt it had a responsibility to become involved in the campaign." he said...