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Odd men, maybe out. Early primaries (New Hampshire through Florida) tend to dim presidential prospects of Hubert Humphrey on Democratic side, Nelson Rockefeller, John Connally on Republican side. . . . Jimmy Carter now says he thinks it will be a three-way race—Carter, Jackson, and Udall—and most political pros tend to agree the primary winners will fight it out in the Convention, ergo no turning of party elders to HHH. . . . Evans & Novak point out that Humphrey can bloom as a late candidate only if Jack-son does badly, since their blue-collar political base coincides; and Jackson, with the campaign assistance of Daniel Moynihan, has done unexpectedly well. . . . Flyer that actor Warren Beatty might enter some primaries (California, Ohio, and New Jersey have been mentioned) as stand-in for a Humphrey-Kennedy ticket seems to be going nowhere. . . . On Republican side, it was only if a Reagan blitzkrieg had materialized, threatening to knock Ford out of the race entirely, that John Connally and Rocky would have considered entering the Republican lists. . . . How about third-party candidacies? Henry Jackson’s campaign manager Bob Keefe, commenting on Wallace defeat by Carter in Florida, says he now thinks that Wallace will be lucky if he arrives at Madison Square Garden with one-third of the Southern delegates (as against a projected one-half), meaning Wallace couldn’t win the nomination in a fair fight, meaning he can’t say they stole it from him, which would be a rationale for a third-party try. . . . Nonetheless, NR publisher Bill Rusher’s Committee for the New Majority is expanding its board of directors to include representatives of cooperating third parties and working to get on the ballot in as many states as possible— just in case. Rusher himself has stepped down as chairman to concentrate on journalistic commitments, including his three-times-a-week syndicated column.

Black political leaders, meeting in Washington a week ago, confess to frustration in trying to wield political clout. Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D., N.Y.) —who ran for President herself in 1972—says the Democrats “take the black vote for granted. Many of the candidates say, ‘where will the black vote go if not to the Democratic Party,’ and that’s what will happen.” . . . Detroit Mayor Coleman Young says he can’t support any of the Democrats now running; both Young and Georgia State Senator Julian Bond would like to see Ted Kennedy in the race.

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Odd men, maybe out. Early primaries (New Hampshire through Florida) tend to dim presidential prospects of Hubert Humphrey on Democratic side, Nelson Rockefeller, John Connally on Republican side. . . . Jimmy Carter now says he thinks it will be a three-way race—Carter, Jackson, and Udall—and most political pros tend to agree the primary winners will fight it out in the Convention, ergo no turning of party elders to HHH. . . . Evans & Novak point out that Humphrey can bloom as a late candidate only if Jack-son does badly, since their blue-collar political base coincides; and Jackson, with the campaign assistance of Daniel Moynihan, has done unexpectedly well. . . . Flyer that actor Warren Beatty might enter some primaries (California, Ohio, and New Jersey have been mentioned) as stand-in for a Humphrey-Kennedy ticket seems to be going nowhere. . . . On Republican side, it was only if a Reagan blitzkrieg had materialized, threatening to knock Ford out of the race entirely, that John Connally and Rocky would have considered entering the Republican lists. . . . How about third-party candidacies? Henry Jackson’s campaign manager Bob Keefe, commenting on Wallace defeat by Carter in Florida, says he now thinks that Wallace will be lucky if he arrives at Madison Square Garden with one-third of the Southern delegates (as against a projected one-half), meaning Wallace couldn’t win the nomination in a fair fight, meaning he can’t say they stole it from him, which would be a rationale for a third-party try. . . . Nonetheless, NR publisher Bill Rusher’s Committee for the New Majority is expanding its board of directors to include representatives of cooperating third parties and working to get on the ballot in as many states as possible— just in case. Rusher himself has stepped down as chairman to concentrate on journalistic commitments, including his three-times-a-week syndicated column.

Black political leaders, meeting in Washington a week ago, confess to frustration in trying to wield political clout. Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D., N.Y.) —who ran for President herself in 1972—says the Democrats “take the black vote for granted. Many of the candidates say, ‘where will the black vote go if not to the Democratic Party,’ and that’s what will happen.” . . . Detroit Mayor Coleman Young says he can’t support any of the Democrats now running; both Young and Georgia State Senator Julian Bond would like to see Ted Kennedy in the race.