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Wallace is likely to carry Mississippi and Alabama, may win Louisiana and Georgia as well. Outside those strongholds of the Deepest South, his chief impact may well be to help re-elect Lyndon Johnson by siphoning away Republican votes. Last month in Washington, in fact, Florida's G.O.P. Governor Claude Kirk charged that Wallace was being promoted as a candidate by Democrats close to the President. Kirk's conspiracy theory gained some credence when some of L.B.J.'s operatives quietly encouraged loyal California Democrats last December to promote the former Alabama Governor's drive...
...first draft of a letter making this request on the grounds that the GSA does not represent student opinion was circulated for signatures at an open meeting of the Committee last night. The letter claims that the GSA does not respond to student opinion because members may re-elect themselves...
Some examples were dramatic. The Irish Catholics of Massachusetts split wide open, deserting Democrat Edward McCormack by the thousands to re-elect Italian Republican John Volpe, who had been a good and popular Governor. Volpe even took that oldest Irish stronghold of all, Boston, city of "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and James Curley. In New York, the Democrats followed the ethnic book by put ting an Italian (Frank Sedita) on the ticket as attorney general, but Rockefeller handily carried the Italian vote...
...Montana, the Miles City Star (circ. 4,000), noting that the New York Times (circ. 874,393) had endorsed Montana Democrat Lee Metcalf, whose U.S. Senate seat is being contested by Governor Tim Babcock, returned the compliment by urging New Yorkers to re-elect Nelson Rockefeller...
...Black Belt's Wilcox and Greene Counties, where Negro voters outnumber whites, incumbent sheriffs-both white, both considered fair-minded law officers-faced Negro candidates for the first time. Far from affirming the bugaboo of Southern whites that "black votes mean black government," Negroes in both counties helped re-elect the white men to office...