Word: michigan
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...primaries he entered and nearly 5 million votes-about four times the totals of Udall or Jackson. Even while losing the Maryland "beauty contest" to Brown, Carter picked up 32 of the state's delegates; he collected an additional 69 in Michigan. At week's end he had a total of 772 firm delegates, with 1,505 needed to nominate...
...weeks leading up to last Tuesday's primary, Michigan voters saw TV commercials purporting to show the two faces of Carter. Caricatures, alternately smiling and scowling, were flashed on a split screen while an announcer reported that Carter has persistently taken different positions on various issues - from abortion to breaking up the oil companies. The commercials exhorted people to vote for Carter's leading liberal opponent, Udall. His narrow loss to the heavily favored Carter suggests that Udall's ads may have hit home...
...Michigan center and the Hollywood halfback, as well as for all those candidates who have never tackled anyone tougher than an elusive voter, June 8 will be Super Bowl day. At stake in California, New Jersey and Ohio on the final day of the long season of primaries is a total of 540 Democratic and 331 Republican delegates-and that may just be the ball game. Those potentially climactic contests are examined here by TIME West Coast Bureau Chief Jess Cook, New York Bureau Chief Laurence I. Barrett and Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin W. Cate...
...chance in Ohio if he campaigns there. So far Reagan has not decided whether it is worth the money and effort. Taking no chances, Ford's Midwest campaign director, Jon Holt, says: "We're going to run just as hard and scared here as we did in Michigan...
Four days before Michigan's presidential primary, eleven days before Kentucky's, word seeped out that the Justice Department might intervene on behalf of antibusing forces in an appeal against a court-imposed plan for Boston's schools. Since both Michigan and; Kentucky have been wracked by violent busing disputes, the disclosure had every earmark of a political ploy to benefit Candidate Gerald Ford...