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...Hampshire backers of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller began a write-in campaign Saturday that could squash Romney in the key March 12 primary...
Chairman of the Rockefeller group, John A. Beckett, a professor at the University of New Hampshire, said in an interview that he has seen polls that show that a Rockefeller write-in effort could come close to or even surpass Romney, whose name is on the ballot...
Only one week ago, on February 10, the slate of delegates met for the first time in a Concord motel and decided to start the campaign in earnest. On that same day, unofficial Kennedy and Reagan write-in groups decided to abandon their efforts...
...reason the Rockefeller delegates waited so long was a legal question. The New Hampshire Supreme Court cleared that up on February 9 when it ruled that a state committee for a write-in candidate could conduct a campaign and expend funds for the candidate without his consent...
...tantamount to a denial of the right to a secret ballot and likened it to branding cattle in Texas. At week's end, Robert Kennedy's unauthorized New Hampshire committee said it would heed the New York Senator's pleas to drop its write-in campaign, and most members announced that they would transfer their backing to McCarthy. Even so, there was every indication that McCarthy's drive to check L.B.J. was still moving on perilously thin...