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Have a lot of people underestimated George C. Wallace? His adroit performance last week left even the skeptics concerned about his effect on the 1968 election. "If you dismiss him out of hand as a clown in an Uncle Sam suit," said Political Analyst Richard Scammon, "you make a grievous error. He is a tough, competent, shrewd politician who has support within the guts of the American electorate-the low income white voters...
Also arriving are Charles V. Hamilton, co-author with Stokely Carmichael of Black Power; Richard M. Scammon, election consultant to the National Broadcasting Company; and John E. Grenier, executive director of the Republican National Committee in the Goldwater campaign...
...Meany's may be euphoric. In all three cities, thousands of white Democrats crossed party lines to vote against Stokes and Hatcher while Mrs. Hicks got nearly half of Boston's white ballots. "The great mass of white voters in Gary and Cleveland," observed Psephologist Richard Scammon, "voted white, not Republican or Democratic." And CORE'S Floyd McKissick, in discussing Cleveland and Gary, pointed out: "A black man is still black and the parties do not support black candidates with the same vim, vigor and vitality that they do white candidates...
...which has to do with military tactics," he explains. When reports circulated recently that he was shifting to an anti-Johnson stance, he declared: "The President needs the support of the American people in the quest for an honorable peace." Rocky has thus hewed precisely to the course that Scammon, mixing metaphors, thinks Republican candidates should follow: "They should sit still, and if there is this wave of discontent, let the apple fall into their laps." Reagan, by contrast, is outspokenly in favor of an intensification of the U.S. war effort...
...cities and suburbs, Reagan would undoubtedly command a strong following among the lower middle-class white voter who, as Scammon notes, "doesn't want a wave maker. This is the virtue of Reagan. He'll stand firm against hippies and blood for the Viet Cong. He'll protect you against dirty new things you don't like such as four-letter words and colored people moving into the neighborhood." But his appeal to independents and middle-class Democrats would be limited...