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McFall was the inevitable fall guy on the first ballot: Burton 106, Boiling 81, Wright 77, McFall 31. With McFall gone under the low-man-out rule, there was speculation that if Burton and Wright beat out Boiling on the second ballot, Burton would win the runoff -since Boiling's supporters would not throw their ballots to the conservative Texan. If Burton and Boiling were the survivors, Boiling would win, since Wright's backers would not vote for the liberal Californian. There were rumors that on the second ballot some of Burton's supporters threw their votes...
...politics of race has gone with the wind," proclaimed Georgia's Governor George Busbee in his 1975 inaugural address. But Busbee, who succeeded Carter, had reason to know that he was not entirely right: his opponent in the Democratic primary runoff, Lester Maddox, won 40% of the vote, mostly from diehard segregationists, who, though they no longer elect statewide candidates, hang on as an inhibiting political force...
...black has been elected to office by statewide vote: he is Joseph Hatchett, 44, a fruit picker's son who won a place on the Florida Supreme Court. Last week Howard Lee, a black former mayor of Chapel Hill, N.C., got 46% of the vote in a Democratic primary runoff for Lieutenant Governor ?a good showing, but not enough. In Mississippi, Fred Banks Jr., one of four blacks in the state legislature, says: "It may take 20 years to get a black elected to statewide office here...
...Saraiva de Carvalho should get 11 % of the vote. The Communist candidate, Octavio Pato, the party's No. 2 man and considered more acceptable than Stalinist Party Boss Alvaro Cunhal, trails with a mere 3%. If Eanes does not get an absolute majority, he will then face a runoff election, probably with Pinheiro de Azevedo-a contest that everyone expects the former Chief of Staff to win handily...
Bookies' Favorite. At week's end there were six Cabinet members in the race. The early favorite-with London bookmakers as well as political analysts -is Callaghan, who, like Wilson, could best hold Labor's warring factions together. Yet he will probably have to face a runoff, perhaps against another moderate-Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, who is the hero of many Laborites disillusioned with old-style politics. Less likely is Employment Secretary Michael Foot, a stalwart of Labor's left wing. The chances of Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, another moderate, were damaged...