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...most entertaining section contains capsule descriptions of the candidates, and reveals the following facts: Yale men (Shriver, Scranton, Morton) outnumber the Harvard men (Lodge, R.F. Kennedy); three vice-presidential hopefuls (Humphrey, Hatfield, McCarthy) are former college professors; Goldwater's wife's maiden name was Johnson; Lodge has stomach ulcers...
...Smith, about the write-ins for Henry Cabot Lodge and Richard Nixon. Yet it was Goldwater who gathered up at least 47 delegates. Last week in Massachusetts, Native Son Lodge amassed a 69,000-vote write-in, against only 9,000 for Runner-Up Goldwater. In Pennsylvania, Governor William Scranton piled up some 225,000 write-ins to break the record of 183,000 set by Jack Kennedy in 1960. Lodge got an impressive 80,000 in Scranton's home territory, Nixon received 37,000 and Goldwater was a poor fourth with 33,000. All but unnoticed...
...obsession with polls. For months, surveys have shown Goldwater's stock down with "rank and file" Republicans and with that elusive voter classified as "independent." This week the Gallup poll reported Lodge favored by 37% of Republicans, Nixon by 28% , Goldwater by 14%, Rockefeller by 9% and Scranton by 4% . Such figures have fooled a lot of people into thinking that Goldwater was through. But no pollster has ever nominated a presidential candidate, and Goldwater has been and remains the favorite of G.O.P. professionals-the people who go to conventions...
...Scranton showed he is able to act quickly in a crisis in recent weeks, as he moved to settle the Chester, Pennsylvania, school segregation dispute. If the state Human Rclations Commission fails to come up with a satisfactory solution, Scranton will have an opportunity to put into practical acts his earlier pronouncements on American racial problems...
With each public denial and private step forward, people will continue to watch Scranton closely. Those sixty-three first-ballot convention votes may be extremely important, as a rallying point for a Scranton drive before or during the convention, a decisive bloc that could go any way in the case of a deadlocked convention, or the core for a vice-Presidential attempt. At any rate, Scranton will probably be without a job in 1966, since he cannot succeed himself as governor and no Senate seat will be available. Certainly he would want to be on good terms with any Republican...