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McGarry hated McGovern with a passion, and needed to re-elect Pell in order to maintain his strength. The day before the election he was already conceding the state to Nixon, but claiming a huge victory for Pell. "Nixon's going to take this state by 35,000 votes," Boss McGarry predicted. "I'm counting on Pell to bring everybody back to the ticket. He's going to win by 40,000 easy...
According to Dwight the National Committee to Re-Elect the President had written off Massachusetts and originally allocated a token $40,000 for the state campaign. He added that rigorous local canvassing and encouraging polls had prompted the national headquarters in contribute another $30,000 to the Massachusetts campaign...
...managed to make the personality the hottest issue in the campaign. The welded strategies did not develop McGovern's strengths. In this sense, the Democrats ran a disembodied campaign and a campaign which could not converge in the person of George McGovern made the work of the Committee to Re-Elect the President a good deal easier...
After seeing it in operation, it is impossible to be sure whether the Campaign to Re-Elect the President is putting the country to sleep, or whether it is creating a constituency as calculating and self-interested as the President himself...
...Committee to Re-elect the President has been responsible for the main Nixon effort in Texas. They say they are not "campaigning" this year, but conducting a "voter-identification drive for President Nixon." "We're attacking on three fronts," a spokesman for the committee said last week. "First, we have telephone centers in places like Houston. We are making about 1500 calls per day for every 10 bank center. We estimate that we have contacted about 575,000 households, or right at one million voters...