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Romney never demonstrated real vote-getting power with Michigan voters until he beat long-time Democratic State Chairman Neil Staebler by 380,000 votes last year, in the face of the Johnson landslide. But in 1964 a unique combination of factors--pervasive prosperity, a horror of Barry Goldwater, the recent death of President Kennedy--led people in most states to vote incumbents, of either party, in unprecedented proportions. Voters with little party identification or interest in politics, voters who form the pivotal "undecided" segment of the electorate, swung almost unanimously to incumbents...
...just these "undecided" voters who gave George Romney his extraordinary margin. The usually accurate Detroit News poll taken just before the 1964 election gave Romney 48 per cent, Staebler 44, with the rest undecided. The final result was Romney 56, Staebler 44. Romney must have received something like 95 per cent of the undecided vote...
PRESIDENT Johnson 1,672,295 Goldwater 793,554 U.S. SENATOR Hart (D) 1,712,325 Peterson (R) 913,542 GOVERNOR Staebler (D) 1,193,932 Romney...
...silence of the News and the Free Press has hurt Romney less than it has hurt Neil Staebler, his Democratic opponent, who needs a big-city sounding board because Democratic office seekers must count on a heavy Wayne County majority (Detroit and suburbs) to offset the strongly Republican vote elsewhere in the state. Thus there was little surprise last week when the effort to solve the strike was shifted to Washington-where influential Democrats are presumably eager to come to the help of Neil Staebler. Both sides were invited to air their grievances before a panel of federal mediators...
Presidential politics has inevitably entered the state campaign. Staebler misses no chance to endorse Lyndon Johnson; while Romney has maintained a more equivocal--and often meandering--attitude toward his party Presidential nominee. Last May, before the California primary, Romney promised to have nothing to do with a "stop-anyone movement"; within two weeks, he was breaking his well-publicized ban on Sunday politicking to stir up just such a movement. It seems that the Governor had just seen some polls giving President Johnson 70 per cent of Michigan's vote against Goldwater in Michigan...