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...Lodge's victory was even more impressive than such figures indicate. For one thing, while it is easy enough to write in a candidate's name on a paper ballot, which almost all of New Hampshire uses, it is fairly tricky to register a write-in on a voting machine. This requires turning a latch, which releases a lock, which frees a slide, which opens to permit space for the write-in. Yet in Portsmouth (pop. 27,500), the only...
...victory for moderation," since the voters had rejected "extremism in the party." He insisted that he had made a good showing: "I feel today's results are clear evidence of the strength I can develop by campaigning." >Richard Nixon, the beneficiary of a low-keyed but rewarding write-in campaign that was led by former Governor Wesley Powell, is hale and heartened. He lost no time showing his satisfaction. At a post-primary press conference, he said again that he is not an active candidate, but declared that there is no one else in the Republican Party...
...Democratic side of the New Hampshire primary, Lyndon Johnson got 29,317 write-in votes for President and Bobby Kennedy got 25,094 for Vice President. The 4,223-vote difference was not much, but it drew a sigh of relief that could be heard right in the White House oval office...
...point, the write-in campaign for Bobby as the President's November running mate had threatened to embarrass Johnson seriously. It also stirred up a beehive of rumors about how Lyndon and Bobby were feuding and were no longer even on speaking terms...
...request. Last January the President sent him abroad to try to smooth over the conflicts between Indonesia, the Philippines and the new nation of Malaysia. While he was away, the Democratic city chairman of Manchester, N.H., Joseph R. Myers, conceived the idea of sponsoring a vice-presidential write-in campaign for him. "We didn't do this to embarrass Johnson," Myers said last week. "The Kennedy name is just magic up here...