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...lose them." Maybe so-and maybe not. In any event, at week's end Kennedy canceled trips into several states, flew back to Washington suffering from a cold accompanied by a slight fever. His illness, plus the fact that he is bypassing foreign policy while on the stump and has not held a press conference in six weeks, makes it unlikely that the voters will hear before Election Day from their President about the issues that seem to concern them most...
...campaign's savage exchanges stem in great part from Dilworth's proven ability to demoralize an opponent on the stump and bury him in a bluster of verbiage. Scranton simply means to stay cool, let Dilworth blurt himself into a fatal political blunder. In 1958 Dilworth made just such an error when he advocated the admission of Red China into the United Nations-an issue that had nothing to do with the Democratic gubernatorial nomination he was then seeking. (He has since changed his mind...
Against McNichols is Republican Love -a man of rugged, movie-star appearance who has plastered the state with stickers bearing only one word: "Love." What else? Candidate Love is a corking good stump speaker. Without getting deep into specifics, he announces himself as backing "a voice in the state's business for every citizen. I'm for the simple but powerful precept of government with the people." Like McNichols, Love is a heavily decorated veteran of World War II; he is addicted to one-button blue suits, button-down collars, and 18-hour cam paign days...
...there is another way in which this politicking is relevant to the failure of Congress; it makes one wonder why we haven't heard more of this sort of talk. The President's very brilliance on the stump gives the lie to claim that he was politically powerless against a recalcitrant Congress...
Rhodes is conducting a low-key campaign in which he takes to the stump only a few times a week, holds no press conferences, rarely mentions Di Salle. refuses to face him in debate. Di Salle, on the other hand, has stumped every one of the state's 88 counties, visited some 130 towns he had never seen before, and is eager to draw Rhodes into any sort of head-on clash. Playing the role of challenger rather than incumbent, he has listed 32 questions that he wants Rhodes to answer. Example: "Will you support public-school education...