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...past, the Rev. Pat Robertson, an immensely popular television evangelist and head of the Christian Broadcasting Network, has said that he was awaiting divine guidance on whether he should run for President. But Robertson's show of strength in an early test in Michigan last week could give the New Right Televangelist a more earthly impetus...
...Robertson's appeal was, perhaps, the only clear-cut revelation to emerge from the Rube Goldberg process that Michigan has adopted for picking delegates to the nominating convention that is still more than two years away. Last week 10,110 potential candidates signed up to run in August to become precinct delegates; the winners will eventually select delegates for district meetings, which will then select delegates for a statewide convention, which will choose Michigan's delegates to the national convention early in 1988. Confusing? Yes. But the contest last week was to see who could get the most people...
Because the potential delegates are not yet formally pledged, there was a welter of claims about who had turned out the most loyalists. The Robertson people estimated they garnered some 4,500. Bush claimed about the same number, while the Kemp camp claimed more than 3,700. Though a little arithmetic reveals that somebody is exaggerating, Robertson clearly prevented Bush from establishing himself as an unrivaled front runner and prevented Kemp from making the race a two-person contest. Said James Killeen, clerk of Michigan's Wayne County: "When a person of Robertson's newcomer status is able to best...
...raised some $400,000 in the state, $150,000 of which will be spent there; the Michigan Opportunity Society, which supports Kemp, will have raised and spent about $150,000 by May 27. Although Robert Dole and Howard Baker have pretty much shunned the fray, Television Evangelist Pat Robertson's Freedom Council, his educational charity, is busy recruiting potential precinct candidates...
...antiestablishment attitudes and New Right values, such as opposing abortion. One of the original apostles of supply-side tax cuts, Kemp stresses economic growth over budget balancing and touts his vision of a flat tax, "where you could fit your return on a postcard." Unfortunately for Kemp, he and Robertson are wooing the same voters...