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How some of the cookies crumbled: Between 1952 and 1964 union members and their families regularly voted 60 per cent strong for the Democratic presidential candidate. In 1968, according to Prof. Robert Axelrod, in a three-way race with George Wallace, that vote slipped to 51 per cent; in 1972, wide distrust of George McGovern pushed union families into the Republican columns; the Democrats got only 45 per cent of that vote. This year it was back up to 60 per cent as George Meany and the AFL-CIO high command, helped by sophisticated computerized lists, herded union members back into the Democratic fold…. It was the independents who, in the end, made the difference, and a massive poll on election day indicates that 25 per cent of the independent voters made up their minds between Carter and Ford in the last five days of the race…. Of the big pollsters, Roper was the closest—and very close indeed—-in its projections. It gave Carter 51 per cent of the vote, Ford 47, and independents two. Wednesday’s still incomplete count was: Carter 51, Ford 48, and independents one…. But that independent vote—Eugene McCarthy’s 1 per cent—may have cost Jimmy Carter Iowa, Maine, and Oklahoma in those wafer-thin Ford victories, and Lester Maddox’ 1 per cent almost cost Ford California…. It was so close that Ladbroke’s was quoting 5 to 6 odds on both Carter and Ford right before the election.

It was give some, take some in the gubernatorial races: In Illinois, James R. Thompson took on Mayor Daley’s machine and made mincemeat of it, winning the gubernatorial race handily…. A well-known name in Delaware helped forge a victory for Republican Pierre S. du Pont IV, and Meldrim Thomson, easily the most conservative governor of them all, won his re-election contest in New Hampshire…. No one was much surprised by John D. Rockefeller IV’s win in West Virginia—Jay is the Democratic Rockefeller—but Dixy Lee Ray’s big (10-percentage-point) victory in Washington resulted from a final fortnight’s surge. Mrs. Ray is the nation’s second woman governor; the other is Connecticut’s Ella Grasso.

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How some of the cookies crumbled: Between 1952 and 1964 union members and their families regularly voted 60 per cent strong for the Democratic presidential candidate. In 1968, according to Prof. Robert Axelrod, in a three-way race with George Wallace, that vote slipped to 51 per cent; in 1972, wide distrust of George McGovern pushed union families into the Republican columns; the Democrats got only 45 per cent of that vote. This year it was back up to 60 per cent as George Meany and the AFL-CIO high command, helped by sophisticated computerized lists, herded union members back into the Democratic fold…. It was the independents who, in the end, made the difference, and a massive poll on election day indicates that 25 per cent of the independent voters made up their minds between Carter and Ford in the last five days of the race…. Of the big pollsters, Roper was the closest—and very close indeed—-in its projections. It gave Carter 51 per cent of the vote, Ford 47, and independents two. Wednesday’s still incomplete count was: Carter 51, Ford 48, and independents one…. But that independent vote—Eugene McCarthy’s 1 per cent—may have cost Jimmy Carter Iowa, Maine, and Oklahoma in those wafer-thin Ford victories, and Lester Maddox’ 1 per cent almost cost Ford California…. It was so close that Ladbroke’s was quoting 5 to 6 odds on both Carter and Ford right before the election.

It was give some, take some in the gubernatorial races: In Illinois, James R. Thompson took on Mayor Daley’s machine and made mincemeat of it, winning the gubernatorial race handily…. A well-known name in Delaware helped forge a victory for Republican Pierre S. du Pont IV, and Meldrim Thomson, easily the most conservative governor of them all, won his re-election contest in New Hampshire…. No one was much surprised by John D. Rockefeller IV’s win in West Virginia—Jay is the Democratic Rockefeller—but Dixy Lee Ray’s big (10-percentage-point) victory in Washington resulted from a final fortnight’s surge. Mrs. Ray is the nation’s second woman governor; the other is Connecticut’s Ella Grasso.