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Nixon was in New York, watching and waiting. In last week's Nebraska primary, where Goldwater's name was the only one on the ballot, Nixon polled a tidy 31.4% write-in vote. Nixon boosters got a psychological lift out of that, but Goldwater drew 49.5% of the vote and five of the six state delegates elected. Later, Nixon called his campaign forces in Oregon to find out how things were going, then took off on a weekend vacation...
...Republican presidential primary was low-key and lackluster. Practically no bandwagons, billboards or ballyhoo enlivened the political landscape. They weren't needed, since the state already was buttoned up for Goldwater. In the Republican voting, he got 100,823 votes, 75% of the total cast. Following him was Write-In Candidate Lodge, with 11,803. Rockefeller, who tried to keep his name off the ballot...
...preoccupation with primaries, which usually make more headlines than delegates. All Goldwater actually lost in New Hampshire was 14 delegates, a mere handful. When he won in Illinois, there were ohs and ahs about the size of the vote for Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith, about the write-ins for Henry Cabot Lodge and Richard Nixon. Yet it was Goldwater who gathered up at least 47 delegates. Last week in Massachusetts, Native Son Lodge amassed a 69,000-vote write-in, against only 9,000 for Runner-Up Goldwater. In Pennsylvania, Governor William Scranton piled up some...
California's is a winner-take-all primary between Goldwater and Rockefeller, with no other candidates entered and no write-in votes counted. With the stakes involved, it would seem good political sense for all anti-Goldwater forces to combine behind Rocky in an effort to head Barry off. But so far only the Lodge camp has made a tentative offer of cooperation, and little has come even of that...
...election and the voting procedure. In the first place, heavy rain and a paucity of real contests on their side kept many Republicans from the polls. In addition, more than half the precincts in the state have voting machines, on which it is difficult to register a write-in vote. (No candidate was on the ballot...