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...delegates, out of 1,505 needed to nominate. Most Democratic leaders think that such a total would put him beyond catching. After the primaries, he plans a strong effort to win the backing of uncommitted delegates as well as that of inactive candidates like Scoop Jack son. TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief James Bell learned that Carter has already approached George Wallace, whom he demolished in the South. Wallace made no promises but reportedly will release his 162 delegates just before or just after the first convention ballot. Most are expected to support Carter...
Udall demonstrated in Michigan that he cannot be taken for granted; he keeps on coming. Brown showed in Maryland that he can have wide appeal. He won Scoop Jackson's lunch-bucket crowd, Mo Udall's suburban Volvo votaries, and cut deeply into Carter's ghetto constituency; Catholics also flocked to the former Jesuit seminarian...
...would be required to capture the bulk of the 280 delegates under the state party's proportional and balkanized selection rules. Lingering feelings that the freshman Governor needs more experience and that he has neglected the Sacramento store could prove to be minor difficulties. Frank Church, and even Scoop Jackson, may siphon off a few delegates...
Carter's people are wise to run hard. Though he seems unbeatable in the popularity contest-Morris Udall is not even entered in that phase of the primary, and the Scoop Jackson and George Wallace campaigns are moribund-there will be a lively scrap in the separate competition for 108 delegates. Udall plans to divide most of his remaining time and money between New Jersey and Ohio. He will probably win some delegates in affluent suburbia...
...become more active: he would publicly authorize a committee, headed by his Minnesota friend Robert Short, to line up uncommitted delegates. It would be a low-key effort, in keeping with his pledges to the other candidates to stay out of the primaries. Like most other politicians, he believed Scoop Jackson was certain to win most of Pennsylvania's delegates even if he might lose the popular vote to Carter. "If Jackson does that," said Humphrey, sounding reassured, "I'm sure he'll stick...