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Back to the Real World. Oregon and Rhode Island Presidential primeries. May 23. Free...
MCGOVERN plans to do well where he thinks he can-Ohio, Michigan, Nebraska-and play a dramatic end game with victories in Oregon, California and New York. "It's the classic underdog strategy," says Ted Van Dyk, a former Humphrey aide who is now a McGovern adviser. "It's also General Giap's battle plan. You concentrate your forces at the point of the enemy's weakness. You pick your battlegrounds." That has led him, wisely and conveniently, to stay out of Southern contests that could have set him back...
...McGovern, now have a diminished role in picking the 1972 nominee. In the Senate, though he has taken a major role in trying to end hunger in the U.S., he remains best known for a series of unsuccessful resolutions and amendments, co-sponsored by Republican Mark Hatfield of Oregon, that would set a date for ending the U.S. presence in Viet Nam. "This chamber reeks of blood," he bitterly told his colleagues just before the Senate voted on the first McGovern-Hatfield amendment in September 1970. If elected, he has promised to end U.S. bombing on Inauguration...
Such proposals clearly require, as the plan says, that "the people of Maine feel free to submit personal interests to the common good." While none of the proposals is unprecedented-Oregon has put its entire Pacific shoreline in the public domain, for example, and many states encourage community corporations-Maine's individualist Yankees do not take kindly to infringements on their liberties...
...state, from battle to battle." His most optimistic scenario now is to win Massachusetts, where his liberal following is strong, on April 25, then Nebraska on May 9, run well enough (meaning third behind Humphrey and Wallace) in Michigan on May 16 and then go on to take Oregon, California and New York...