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Call it a draw in the June 2 primaries. On Republican side Ronald Reagan won two in the West (South Dakota, Montana), lost one in the East (Rhode Island), took 11 delegates to Ford’s 28…. On Democratic side Carter won one (South Dakota), lost one to Church (Montana), ran behind “Uncommitted” in Rhode Island. Jerry Brown, who had campaigned for the uncommitted delegates, called this a victory; whether all nine of those delegates feel committed to Brown is another question…. Carter meanwhile was getting valuable support in Ohio. He lined up liberal former Governor John Gilligan, which could cut into Udall/Church vote; got an 11th hour endorsement from Rep. Louis Stokes, member of the congressional Black Caucus, and brother of former Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, now an NBC commentator, which should help cement the black vote…. Alan Baron, the McGovern aide who was fired out of hand a week earlier for being too obviously a part of the Stop Carter movement, moved to Ohio a week before that primary to work in the Mo Udall campaign there…. Udall himself, who has provided whatever humor there has been in the campaign, admits he’s run second so often that his campaign song is “Second Hand Rose.”… In Washington the pols are asking whether the Humphrey-Kennedy balloon launched a fortnight ago couldn’t—if indeed Carter can be stopped on the first ballot—emerge as an HHH-Carter ticket? Humphrey, they argue, is 65 and has been in bad health recently…. Going into the Big Casino—California, Ohio, and New Jersey—Carter had 905 delegates (of 1,505 needed to win), against Udall 307, Church 64, Brown 28 (to list just the active candidates). In the GOP it was Ford 799 to Reagan 653, but with Reagan expecting the huge (167) California block.

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Call it a draw in the June 2 primaries. On Republican side Ronald Reagan won two in the West (South Dakota, Montana), lost one in the East (Rhode Island), took 11 delegates to Ford’s 28…. On Democratic side Carter won one (South Dakota), lost one to Church (Montana), ran behind “Uncommitted” in Rhode Island. Jerry Brown, who had campaigned for the uncommitted delegates, called this a victory; whether all nine of those delegates feel committed to Brown is another question…. Carter meanwhile was getting valuable support in Ohio. He lined up liberal former Governor John Gilligan, which could cut into Udall/Church vote; got an 11th hour endorsement from Rep. Louis Stokes, member of the congressional Black Caucus, and brother of former Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, now an NBC commentator, which should help cement the black vote…. Alan Baron, the McGovern aide who was fired out of hand a week earlier for being too obviously a part of the Stop Carter movement, moved to Ohio a week before that primary to work in the Mo Udall campaign there…. Udall himself, who has provided whatever humor there has been in the campaign, admits he’s run second so often that his campaign song is “Second Hand Rose.”… In Washington the pols are asking whether the Humphrey-Kennedy balloon launched a fortnight ago couldn’t—if indeed Carter can be stopped on the first ballot—emerge as an HHH-Carter ticket? Humphrey, they argue, is 65 and has been in bad health recently…. Going into the Big Casino—California, Ohio, and New Jersey—Carter had 905 delegates (of 1,505 needed to win), against Udall 307, Church 64, Brown 28 (to list just the active candidates). In the GOP it was Ford 799 to Reagan 653, but with Reagan expecting the huge (167) California block.

Gurbutt, England Rothco