Word: romneys
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...Down at the ranch, he was able to savor two samplings, one taken by Gallup before the President's Glassboro summit meetings, another by Louis Harris afterward, which showed a sharp increase in his ratings. Gallup gave him a 1% edge over Michigan's Republican Governor George Romney-though he trailed Romney by 9% less than four months ago. Harris showed him leading both Romney and former Vice President Richard Nixon by a 56-to-44 margin. His renewed popularity unquestionably reflected approval of his low-keyed handling of the Mideast crisis and of his meeting with Soviet...
Dead in the Water. Many moderates were concerned by Romney's failure to generate more enthusiasm among G.O.P. professionals, despite his preeminence in the popularity polls. "A lot of us out here simply aren't convinced that Romney is the chosen moderate to lead the party in 1968," said Washington's Governor Daniel Evans. Oregon's Tom McCall, who makes no secret of his admiration for Rockefeller, asked: "What the dickens has happened to Romney's campaign? At the moment, it's lying dead in the water...
Perhaps not, but it is entirely possible that those who are most eagerly pursuing the nomination, Romney and Nixon, could find themselves somewhere in the middle of the pack when the nominating convention assembles next summer, and that the reluctant dragons, Reagan and Rocky, could be right up front. Said a Western Governor: "As Romney goes down, Rocky goes up. As Nixon goes down, Reagan goes up." There was even talk of a possible Rockefeller-Reagan ticket. To be sure, one Governor dismissed it as an "oil-andwater" mixture, and Reagan himself seemed to be ruling Rocky...
...This Guy's a Loser." Neither Nixon nor Romney is by any means out of the running yet. Of Romney, Oregon's McCall declared: "Somebody just has to crank him up again." Having taken the lead too early, he has deliberately slowed the pace of his presidential campaign. But his supporters are convinced that once he begins campaigning, he will prove, as he has three times in Michigan, that he is a tireless, dynamic and nigh unbeatable stumper...
Wide-Open Convention. Romney will have another opportunity to rally the G.O.P. Governors in September, when they join their Democratic counterparts for a floating Governors' convention aboard the cruise ship Independence in the Caribbean. But the Governors seem disposed to wait...