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Arizona (5): Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 325,000 to 180,000, and Goldwater will need help from a strong state ticket to carry his own state...
...Blatt is not one to watch calmly from the sidelines. At every possible occasion, she seeks to tie Scott and Goldwater together, and she proclaims--with some success--"I am comfortable with the top of my ticket, but he is not." A 51-year-old attorney from Pittsburgh, Miss Blatt rose through the state Democratic ranks, until in 1954 she became the first woman elected to statewide office in Pennsylvania. She has been re-elected twice, and in 1962 she was the sole Democratic survivor of a GOP victoryalat put Scranton in Harrisburg. When she did not get state organization...
Scott's polls now give him a 57-43 lead over Miss Blatt, and she has been slipping in normally Democratic strongholds in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. One explanation for her lag has been the widespread defections from the ticket among Negroes, Jews, and especially Italians. Still bitter over a series of questions Clark addressed to Musmanno about his background during the primary the Italians shout agreement with Scott's charge of "bigotry," in the Blatt campaign. (She records that it is "bigotry" to charge this...
With the other members of the state ticket almost sure to be defeated and a possible loss of two or three Republican Congressional seats, the party organization in the state has all but officially embarked on a "Save Scott" crusade. In addition, "Democrats for Scott" and "Independents for Scott" (there are also "Friends of Scott," "Progressive Pennsylvanians for Scott," "Healing Arts Committee for Scott," "Lawyers for Scott," Veterans for Scott," etc.) have begun to distribute ticket-splitting information in huge quantities. (Most of the state votes on machines, which include prominent instructions in straight ticket voting...
...there has never been a Goldwater in Pennsylvania before. Even if Scott runs ahead of the national ticket by 500,000 votes, as expected, the Johnson margin may swallow him. "Belive in Geneieve" or not, the people may trade "Great Scott" in for her next week in one of the country's closest races...