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■ June 8 is next big primary day. Going to the wire in California, Rep. Barry Goldwater Jr.—who has led all the way in seven-man GOP Senate primary race —slipped to third place at 19 per cent, behind San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson (26), and Rep. Pete McCloskey, the leftmost serious candidate (20), in Teichner Associates poll (May 22). . . . On Democratic side it looks as if Gore Vidal will be beaten by “a political corpse,” which is what he has been calling Gov. Jerry Brown. Despite fact that Vidal has won endorsement of California trendies, former Sen. John Tunney, Norman Lear, and Ed Asner, he’s trailing Brown 59 to 11 according to most recent Mervin Field poll. . . . A continent away, Rep. Millicent Fenwick’s energetic efforts to distance herself from a liberal voting record—I am not “a lady of the Left”— was not helped when she got ADA’s endorsement in her race for GOP senatorial nomination against Jeff Bell. Bell has been hammering away at Mrs. Fenwick’s liberal voting record (her career rating with ACU is 37). A recent New Jersey poll of Republican voters found 47 per cent listed themselves as conservatives, 42 as moderates, only 9 as liberals. … In Ohio, interest centers on efforts of conservative Democratic Congressman Ron Mottl (a Boll Weevil) to fight back challenge of liberal Democrat Edward Feighan in his redrawn 19th CD. Mottl has been endorsed by the latest PAC in town, the Boll Weevil PAC.

Gurbutt, England Rothco

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■ June 8 is next big primary day. Going to the wire in California, Rep. Barry Goldwater Jr.—who has led all the way in seven-man GOP Senate primary race —slipped to third place at 19 per cent, behind San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson (26), and Rep. Pete McCloskey, the leftmost serious candidate (20), in Teichner Associates poll (May 22). . . . On Democratic side it looks as if Gore Vidal will be beaten by “a political corpse,” which is what he has been calling Gov. Jerry Brown. Despite fact that Vidal has won endorsement of California trendies, former Sen. John Tunney, Norman Lear, and Ed Asner, he’s trailing Brown 59 to 11 according to most recent Mervin Field poll. . . . A continent away, Rep. Millicent Fenwick’s energetic efforts to distance herself from a liberal voting record—I am not “a lady of the Left”— was not helped when she got ADA’s endorsement in her race for GOP senatorial nomination against Jeff Bell. Bell has been hammering away at Mrs. Fenwick’s liberal voting record (her career rating with ACU is 37). A recent New Jersey poll of Republican voters found 47 per cent listed themselves as conservatives, 42 as moderates, only 9 as liberals. … In Ohio, interest centers on efforts of conservative Democratic Congressman Ron Mottl (a Boll Weevil) to fight back challenge of liberal Democrat Edward Feighan in his redrawn 19th CD. Mottl has been endorsed by the latest PAC in town, the Boll Weevil PAC.

Gurbutt, England Rothco