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Kennedy says he will loyally campaign for the ticket in 1968, and has promised to submit sworn affidavits, if need be, to keep his name off primary ballots in such states as New Hampshire, Nebraska and Oregon. His avid supporters may mount write-in campaigns for him anyway-although they have found little backing thus far in the ranks of regular Democrats. One outfit, the Citizens for Kennedy-Ful-bright, wrote 5,000 former delegates and alternates to Democratic conventions requesting support, got only 28 positive replies. Said an Oregonian: "The only time I would favor Senator Fulbright...
Georgians who are unhappy over the segregationist position of both Maddox and Callaway-and who caused the dilemma by casting 48,439 votes for a write-in candidate-most likely will have to wait until the general election...
...Maddox on the assumption tha the would be the easier candidate to defeat in the general election. Then Maddox faced Republican segregationalist Bo Callaway in the general election three weeks ago, and Arnall got his revenge. Callaway led Maddox, 451,032 to 448,598, but a six per cent write-in vote for Arnall prevented either candidate from gaining a majority of the popular vote. Then the legal entanglements began...
Georgia attorney general Arthur B. Bolton said that in a runoff or special election, voters could insist that write-ins be counted. The write-in campaign would probably be better organized than it was Nov. 8. Then a series of indecisive runoff elections might wind up in a total stalemate. "This may require Georgia to abandon its desirable majority system of election," Bolton declared...
...Maddox nor Callaway represents the will of a majority of people. "It showed the nation that Georgia wasn't ready to swallow either of those segregationists," said a prominent moderate. Arnall is not campaigning or making statements, but he is apparently tickled pink at the predicament caused by his write-in votes...