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Whether this bodes well for McGovern's chances of carrying the state is as yet uncertain. A Daniel Yankelovich poll taken August 25-September 12 showed Nixon leading 71-18, but since that time, both McGovern and Shriver have toured the state. An October 20 poll cited by the McGovern-Shriver state campaign headquarters showed Nixon leading by a margin of 52-38, which, according to state campaign chairman Donald O'Brien, marked a ten point gain for the South Dakota senator in a little over a week...
...Texas, but these districts are still considered "swing" areas. "They've always been solidly Democratic, but in recent years, especially in (former U.S. Senator) Ralph Yarborough's case, there's been some migration," explained John C. White, state Commissioner of Agriculture and co-chairman of the Texas McGovern-Shriver campaign. "Like the people in the urban areas, they're not as concerned as they should be about farm programs and rural development programs...
Fred Geldon, co-chairman of the McGovern-Shriver campaign in Cambridge, and Jim Dumont '75, coordinator of Harvard-Radcliffe Students for McGovern, each stated that they will urge volunteers who are not needed locally to work in other New England communities in the last four days of the campaign...
...which one of us he loves more by which song he sings first," said Eunice Shriver as she introduced her guest of honor, Rock Singer Neil Diamond. Eunice and Sister-in-Law Ethel Kennedy had both put in requests at a McGovern-Shriver fund-raising picnic. "This is a terrible predicament-I'm chicken is what I am," Diamond confessed. He tried to escape by beginning with some of his own favorites, then got up enough nerve to swing into Eunice's choice, Sweet Caroline. Ethel responded by creeping up be hind the singer and pouring...
McCarthy appeared at a rally sponsored by the Concerned Clergy for McGovern-Shriver, a division of the Massachusetts Committee to elect McGovern. McCarthy told an audience of 500 in Faneuil Hall that this is "the first administration in which public officials were not condemned for accepting bribes...