Word: ohio
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Despite their attractiveness, Sens. Walter Mondale and Birch Bayh just don't hold strong hands in the delegate numbers game--the latter spent $1 million for one Massachusetts delegate. Another often-mentioned vice-presidential possibility, Sen. John Glenn, of Ohio and Outer Space, is a political neophyte--something the Carter campaign abounds in--and unless the delegate situation is really desperate, constant primary bickering between Carter and Mo Udall would preclude the choice of the Arizona Congressman. And a Carter-Jerry Brown would be unbalanced in ideology and constituency which would mean sitting this one out for many Democrats...
...Udall is not even entered in that phase of the primary, and the Scoop Jackson and George Wallace campaigns are moribund-there will be a lively scrap in the separate competition for 108 delegates. Udall plans to divide most of his remaining time and money between New Jersey and Ohio. He will probably win some delegates in affluent suburbia...
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Republicans: Says Reagan's Ohio campaign director, Peter E. Voss: "It's guerrilla warfare down here. I can't build bridges or highways. We're fighting the king." The king, of course, is Ford, who already has 24 of the state's 97 G.O.P. delegates, since there are no Reagan delegate slates in one-third of Ohio's congressional districts. Ford also enjoys the backing of Governor James A. Rhodes and other G.O.P. bigwigs. They have an elaborate campaign operation and ten telephone banks across the state...
Even so, Voss feels that Reagan has a 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...