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...been undergoing a social tempest. Cambridge politic have been modernized more slowly. The city's often compared to Berkeley, Calif., as a center of "youth culture." But while young people have had a tremendous social impact on Cambridge, so far the city has effectively barred them from local voter rolls and prevented them from having much of an impact on city politics. While radicals tool over the city government of Berkeley two year ago, council elections in tradition-tied Cambridge last year produced only a shaky liberal majority in a City Council shared with ethnic and commercial interests...
...very elements, in fact, that have made up the Democratic coalition for 40 years are now threatening to desert to the G.O.P., and the Republicans are doing everything possible to make them feel at home. The so-called white ethnics, largely Catholic voters, have been pleased by Nixon's opposition to abortion and his support of aid to parochial schools. The blue-collar voter has been treated to a variety of favors. The New York City construction unions have been placated by an easing of the demand that they hire more members of minority groups. Transportation workers are happy...
...Richard Nixon. He had better stick with that." But there are mystifying crosscurrents moving at this stage of the campaign. Even as a Harris poll was showing that the Eagleton affair had sent McGovern to a miserable 34% rating behind Nixon's 57% in voter preference, a Gallup poll disclosed that 53% of Americans believe that the Democratic Party can handle the problems that most concern them better than the Republicans. The reverse was true when Humphrey began his campaign against Nixon in 1968; yet Humphrey very nearly won as Nixon's once commanding lead evaporated down...
Russell, a Democratic housewife from South San Gabriel, Calif., who liked McGovern before but is now undecided as to whom to vote for. In shifting from " 1,000% " support of Eagleton to dropping him, McGovern "lied-and let me down," charges Student James Kauffman, an independent first-time voter from Avon Lake, Ohio. The sympathies of Mrs. John Campbell of Collingswood, N.J., were all with Eagleton because if "he didn't crack during that week, he certainly wouldn't have cracked in office." About the highest praise McGovern got from the group was the mild "I just think...
...personality leaves me cold." If the campaign turns out to focus on personality, McGovern's chances apparently would improve. "He doesn't doubletalk; he knows how to make himself a part of the people rather than just a politician," argues Billing Clerk Lynda Bialy, a young voter in Buffalo, N.Y. Surprisingly, only one out of seven who expect to vote for McGovern will do so on the basis of any specific issue, although inconsistently, two-thirds of the panel predict that the campaign will be fought primarily on issues. For the first time in these surveys, there...