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From Worcester, Udall drove to a reception in Wellesley at a supporter's home. It was a typical wine-and-cheese gathering, but a local Democratic official said that of a normal 11,000-voter turnout in Wellesley, only 1700 are Democrats. Why would Udall bother with such a small town? Money. After the reception, a Udall staffer said, "We just made $3000 in there...
...Downs. Voter registration is up in some of the early primary states. Compared with 1972, it has risen from 424,000 to an estimated 436,000 registered voters in New Hampshire, from 2.78 million to 2.84 million in Massachusetts and from 3 million to 3.5 million in Florida. But in big cities, registration is down-by 102,000 in Chicago and 42,000 in Boston. Since cities are Democratic bastions, this downward trend may hurt the Democrats in November...
...surveys for us, three during the primaries and three more following the party conventions. Building on the body of data gathered up in two years of quarterly TIME Soundings, the last of which appears in this issue, these polls will not only rank the candidates but also plumb changing voter attitudes. The goal is to study America while it is evaluating the candidates...
Both candidates are employing banks of telephones and computerized voter lists. But Reagan, who signed up a campaign committee chairman in each of the state's 236 cities and towns by last December, seems to have an edge in reaching his quarry. "We do our politicking in the kitchen," explains Reagan Chairman Gerard Schacht of Effingham (pop. 338), who prefers neighborly persuasion over coffee to the ringing telephones that can turn voters off. At week's end, in Florida, Ford publicly expressed a view that aides said he had long held in private. Apparently to counter Reagan...
Reverberations from the Lockheed scandal echoed across Japan last week in angry newspaper headlines and outraged television commentaries. The affair was the country's most explosive political issue since ex-Premier Kakuei Tanaka resigned 15 months ago under charges of shady financial dealings. Fearful of voter reaction, the ruling Liberal Democrats now plan to put off until the fall parliamentary elections that were expected this spring. After marathon sessions with worried party members from the Diet, Premier Takeo Miki ordered an investigation by a lower-house committee, which this week will hear testimony from key principals in the case...