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...Orren's optimism is tempered by reality. "Chappaquiddick is not something that's going to disappear.... A certain portion of the population will never vote for Kennedy because he doesn't meet their standards of moral rectitude...
...going to win, other factors will have to come to dominate," Orren predicted. "Now you are starting to see people weight those sorts of issues against competency questions.... We haven't had that before--instead there's been intense scrutiny on Ted Kennedy the man. Up till now, people have been voting up or down on Ted Kennedy's history...
Kennedy and his staff made a conscious decision to start stressing the issues, especially stances like gas rationing and wage-price controls where Kennedy stood apart from the President beginning with the early-winter Georgetown speech, Orren said...
...position papers and discussion of the issues, but a campaign creates its own emphasis." Kennedy said "nothing new in the Georgetown speech, except for rationing and wage-price controls We had discussed coming out for those things before, and tried to figure out what the timing was," Orren said...
...strategy paid off just in time for Kennedy. Pointing to California, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Jersey as must states, Orren predicted the race would probably go down to the last primaries. Outside factors--especially cross-over voting for Rep. John Anderson (R-Ill.) might affect tomorrow's voting in Wisconsin. But by the time the race reaches Pennsylvania, it should be a "showdown," he said...