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...vote in Pennsylvania is anything but an over-whelming endorsement of Scranton as a Presidential candidate, While forces backing the unwilling governor had conducted an intensive write-in campaign, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge added to his recent impressive victories by capturing about twenty per cent of the vote with almost no effort at all, and Richard Nixon outpolled Goldwater...
Experts believe that President Johnson and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge '21 will receive more votes than any other prospective Presidential candidates. Neither man's name appears on the ballot, however. The write-in vote will be only an expression of preference, moreover, and will not be binding upon delegates to the parties' national conventions this summer...
Almost as interesting were the findings of the Field poll in California. Lodge is not even entered in the June 2 primary, and write-in votes are not counted in California. Yet the survey indicated that if California Republicans did have their choice, they would vote like this...
Asked whom the American Communist Party would support for the Presidency this year, Miss Flynn smiled and suggested that "we just might have our own write-in candidate this time. Since what happened in New Hampshire, we've been thinking about it. Gus Hall has a short name, you know...
While many analysts had seen Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge's write-in victory as a deathly blow to Barry Goldwater's hopes for the G.O.P. nomination, the Gallup Poll indicated that the obits were premature. A post-New Hampshire nationwide poll of 1,840 Republican county chairmen-the hardcore politicians who either go, or help name most of the delegates, to national conventions-showed that Barry is still the favorite. The chairmen rated Richard Nixon as Goldwater's closest competitor. The tabulation...