The Last Kennedy

Michigan democrats urge Kennedy to run. 2 BIG UNIONS LEAN TO TED. HISPANIC LEADERS EXPRESS STRONG SUPPORT FOR KENNEDY. THEY’RE ALL CRAZY for Kennedy. Ted Kennedy now dominates the political scene in a way that has been unmatched by any other challenger for the Presidency in forty years. . . . Kennedy LEADS CARTER IN W. VA. NOW, BYRD SAYS. FEELING A DRAFT, TED SWEEPS TWO POLLS. TEDDY THRASHING CARTER IN NJ. & CONN. KENNEDY MAY FIND SUPPORT IN SOUTH—IF HE RUNS. CLEVELAND DEMOCRATS REJECT CARTER, PLAN KENNEDY DRAFT. Senator Edward Kennedy will very likely defeat President Carter as a write-in candidate in New Hampshire, then meet the February 27 filing deadline for states that send about one-third of the delegates to the convention, and clinch the nomination by sweeping the New York Democratic primary. . . .

Two days before the New Hampshire primary (“. . . his own backyard . . .”) Edward Kennedy arrives in the state that was slated, eight months ago, as the scene of Carter’s final demise. But eight months ago was eight months ago; Carter has taken up permanent residence in the Situation Room (never know when those Russians might invade another country), and the only ailing politico on the landscape is Edward Kennedy.

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Richard Brookhiser

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

Michigan democrats urge Kennedy to run. 2 BIG UNIONS LEAN TO TED. HISPANIC LEADERS EXPRESS STRONG SUPPORT FOR KENNEDY. THEY’RE ALL CRAZY for Kennedy. Ted Kennedy now dominates the political scene in a way that has been unmatched by any other challenger for the Presidency in forty years. . . . Kennedy LEADS CARTER IN W. VA. NOW, BYRD SAYS. FEELING A DRAFT, TED SWEEPS TWO POLLS. TEDDY THRASHING CARTER IN NJ. & CONN. KENNEDY MAY FIND SUPPORT IN SOUTH—IF HE RUNS. CLEVELAND DEMOCRATS REJECT CARTER, PLAN KENNEDY DRAFT. Senator Edward Kennedy will very likely defeat President Carter as a write-in candidate in New Hampshire, then meet the February 27 filing deadline for states that send about one-third of the delegates to the convention, and clinch the nomination by sweeping the New York Democratic primary. . . .

Two days before the New Hampshire primary (“. . . his own backyard . . .”) Edward Kennedy arrives in the state that was slated, eight months ago, as the scene of Carter’s final demise. But eight months ago was eight months ago; Carter has taken up permanent residence in the Situation Room (never know when those Russians might invade another country), and the only ailing politico on the landscape is Edward Kennedy.