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...Reed is still stringing along with Rocky. Idaho's Robert Smylie, Rhode Island's John Chafee and Oregon's Mark Hatfield have leaned to Rocky, now believe his prospects are dead, and apparently are casting around for another candidate. That leaves only Favorite Sons Rockefeller, Romney, Scranton, and Ohio's James Rhodes...
Little known outside the East, Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton seems to want to keep it that way, and Republicans are beginning to believe his vehement denials of candidacy. There is no movement in the works...
Mentioned more and more often as a compromise candidate is Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, thanks in large part to recent praise from Ike. But Morton has been doing about as much as Romney and Scranton to further his cause-which is to say, nothing...
...time is understandable. First of all, they have no candidate behind whom they can rally. Nelson Rockefeller's personal life and his fiscal and administrative troubles in New York combined with his poor showing in Gallup and Harris polls have eliminated him as an alternative, and neither Romney nor Scranton has been able to create much enthusiasm. The only other prominently mentioned candidate, General Lucius Clay, has been unreceptive to all offers of support...
...reelection and figures to hurt the ticket. Racial tensions are plaguing Chicago Mayor Daley's Democratic machine. Kennedy won by a mere 8,800 votes in 1960, would probably lose the state to Goldwater today. If they convinced Illinois that they are not too liberal, Romney and Scranton would also have a chance...