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...double-edged drive was difficult for Reagan and his putative running mate. Having told Southerners that Schweiker was not nearly as liberal as his voting record suggests, they argued in the North that Reagan's very selection of Schweiker showed that the Californian was not as doctrinaire and rigid a conservative as he has been portrayed. With this rationalization, Reagan managed to open a few more small cracks in Ford's strongest bastions. But he was still far short of cracking those bastions wide enough to give him more than a long-shot chance in Kansas City...
...YORK. Strongly influenced by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, the state had been expected to deliver all but a score or so of its votes to Ford. After the Reagan-Schweiker visit, Reagan gained only two new votes, neither attributable to his selection of Schweiker. TIME'S count showed 127 Ford votes in the delegation, 20 for Reagan and seven uncommitted...
Certainly, Reagan's gamble with Schweiker had achieved a secondary purpose of confusing matters and raising the choice of a Vice President as an emotional issue in the minds of delegates. But his urgent need was to press on in hard pursuit of delegates who are becoming more elusive as they weary of all the conflicting pressures. As one pro-Reagan delegate, Delaware's William Swain Lee, explained his fed-up feelings, "After what I've been through, I'd stay with Reagan even if the heavens opened up and a voice from the sky told...
Thus the 60-member Mississippi delegation to the Republican National Convention has been both dismayed and delighted by its potentially pivotal role in selecting the party's presidential nominee. It has also been confused. After Ronald Reagan named the liberal Senator Richard Schweiker as his choice for a running mate, Delegate Malcolm Mabry changed his mind twice in 48 hours. He finally settled on Reagan-right where he had begun...
...Three weeks ago, Reed was angered by what he termed Carmichael's "lies" in claiming that Ford then had 30 votes and Reagan would accept second place on a Ford ticket. Repeated soundings by TIME correspondents showed that Mississippi had been leaning toward Reagan, but his choice of Schweiker pushed the delegation into a truly uncertain category...