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Fifteen new votes from Hawaii. Eight from New York. Five from Virginia. One each from Delaware, Illinois, Louisiana, South Carolina. Mississippi, clinging to a unit rule, was poised to switch its 30 votes from Ronald Reagan to Gerald Ford. The President had the nomination wrapped up, with 1,135 votes...
It was strange but somehow dramatically fitting that the Democrats had assembled in such an unregenerate place to nominate Jimmy Carter, from Plains, Ga., a Southern Baptist who in the '60s did missionary work in the Northern slums. At any rate, the contrast between the nimbus around the podium...
Not in decades have so few delegates counted for so much. Those who are still uncommitted to either President Ford or Ronald Reagan are achieving a once-in-a-lifetime celebrity status as they are fought and fawned over by supporters of both candidates. As last week began, Ford led...
After last week's divisive battles, Ford led Reagan in committed delegates 1,050 to 977 (needed to nominate at the convention in August: 1,130). But Reagan has been catching up, and he will further narrow the President's lead in the eight state conventions between now...
Figuring that they cannot top Carter anyhow, right-wing purists argue that they might as well nominate their ideological favorite, Reagan. At the Missouri convention, Governor Kit Bond repeatedly cited a poll showing Ford running twelve points better than Reagan in the state; delegates were unmoved because they knew that...