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Going into the stretch: Gallup predicts the election day turnout in this non-presidential year will be the lightest ever. . . . Knox Pitt, an official of the Democratic Campaign Division, thinks the Democrats may end up holding 40 governorships—the highest number since 1936 when, however, there were only 48 states. Others find that figure somewhat exaggerated. … At AFLCIO COPE headquarters they’re predicting a gain of 40 House seats— which would give George Meany a “veto-proof” lower House but not a veto-proof Congress. . . . The biggest fundraisers in Senate races were incumbents Alan Cranston (Calif.) $890,000, George McGovern (S.D.) $850,000, Richard Schweiker (Pa.) $614,000, and John Glenn, who is running for seat being vacated by Howard Metzenbaum in Ohio, $803,000. . . . For the first time in his career Jacob Javits is in trouble. Newsday (L.I.) poll taken first week in October showed him ahead of challenger Ramsey Clark by only seven points. Javits had 39 per cent, to 32 per cent for Clark, 9 per cent for Conservative Party candidate Barbara Keating, with dangerous 20 per cent still undecided. If Clark makes it, writes columnist Joseph Kraft, he will be “in a strong position to take George McGovern’s place as the liberal hope for the Democratic presidential nomination.” . . . Senator Henry Jackson, who wants that nomination, was doing his best to kiss and make friends with McGovern wing of party by campaigning for such leftists as Father Drinan in Massachusetts, and Representative Abner Mikva in Illinois.

Republicans have lucked into quite a good situation in South Carolina where Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charles “Pug” Ravenel was ruled ineligible a month before election day, raising hopes of GOP candidate Dr. James Edwards. Ravenel had been leading Edwards by 58 per cent to 21 per cent in late September polls. … In Arkansas Judy Petty was given a better chance (still not a terribly good one) to upset Representative Wilbur Mills after his dustup with the Argentine Firecracker and the Park Police. Mrs. Petty is the first Republican to challenge Mills in 38 years. (The bon mot making the rounds in Arkansas about Mills is “hasn’t he suffered enough?”) . . . Maryland voters are looking forward to election night when Barbara Mandel, the former wife of Governor Marvin Mandel, will be a member of an election night panel on station WJZ-TV. “What I like most,” says the first Mrs. Mandel, “is to talk about politics.” . . . Rockefeller/Goldberg book revelations have set diligent reporters on another hunt: they’re trying to find out who funded the Century 21 Publishing Company which surfaced just long enough in 1964 to bring out one book, a hatchet job called Goldwater: A Political Indictment.

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Going into the stretch: Gallup predicts the election day turnout in this non-presidential year will be the lightest ever. . . . Knox Pitt, an official of the Democratic Campaign Division, thinks the Democrats may end up holding 40 governorships—the highest number since 1936 when, however, there were only 48 states. Others find that figure somewhat exaggerated. … At AFLCIO COPE headquarters they’re predicting a gain of 40 House seats— which would give George Meany a “veto-proof” lower House but not a veto-proof Congress. . . . The biggest fundraisers in Senate races were incumbents Alan Cranston (Calif.) $890,000, George McGovern (S.D.) $850,000, Richard Schweiker (Pa.) $614,000, and John Glenn, who is running for seat being vacated by Howard Metzenbaum in Ohio, $803,000. . . . For the first time in his career Jacob Javits is in trouble. Newsday (L.I.) poll taken first week in October showed him ahead of challenger Ramsey Clark by only seven points. Javits had 39 per cent, to 32 per cent for Clark, 9 per cent for Conservative Party candidate Barbara Keating, with dangerous 20 per cent still undecided. If Clark makes it, writes columnist Joseph Kraft, he will be “in a strong position to take George McGovern’s place as the liberal hope for the Democratic presidential nomination.” . . . Senator Henry Jackson, who wants that nomination, was doing his best to kiss and make friends with McGovern wing of party by campaigning for such leftists as Father Drinan in Massachusetts, and Representative Abner Mikva in Illinois.

Republicans have lucked into quite a good situation in South Carolina where Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charles “Pug” Ravenel was ruled ineligible a month before election day, raising hopes of GOP candidate Dr. James Edwards. Ravenel had been leading Edwards by 58 per cent to 21 per cent in late September polls. … In Arkansas Judy Petty was given a better chance (still not a terribly good one) to upset Representative Wilbur Mills after his dustup with the Argentine Firecracker and the Park Police. Mrs. Petty is the first Republican to challenge Mills in 38 years. (The bon mot making the rounds in Arkansas about Mills is “hasn’t he suffered enough?”) . . . Maryland voters are looking forward to election night when Barbara Mandel, the former wife of Governor Marvin Mandel, will be a member of an election night panel on station WJZ-TV. “What I like most,” says the first Mrs. Mandel, “is to talk about politics.” . . . Rockefeller/Goldberg book revelations have set diligent reporters on another hunt: they’re trying to find out who funded the Century 21 Publishing Company which surfaced just long enough in 1964 to bring out one book, a hatchet job called Goldwater: A Political Indictment.