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As they see it today: Kevin Phillips, who was saying two weeks ago that Ford had a l-in-5 chance of pulling it out against Carter, now gives him 3-in-10. . . . Evans & Novak call it even closer, making Carter a 3-to-2 favorite. In their new state-by-state breakdown, they now put three big ones—California, Pennsylvania, New York—in the “leaning to” rather than in the “probably for” Carter category. … A late August Harris poll (published Sept. 15) shows another slippage in Carter appeal; voters who viewed him as “the kind of new, fresh face that is needed in the White House” slipped to 52 per cent from 68 per cent a month earlier. . . . The Republican Policy Committee, having pored over the Democratic platform for six weeks, now accuses Carter of being “cynical and deceptive” in promising the voters new federal programs that would cost an additional $700 billion in federal outlays by 1980. . . . Former bank robber and newborn author Willie Sutton doesn’t think much of Republicans (“they don’t know what problems the people have”), but he thinks even less of Democrat Jimmy Carter (“I’ve never seen a bigger confidence man in my life, and I’ve been around some of the best in the business,” he told the Village Voice).

About that Playboy interview. Assistant Carter campaign director Joseph Duffey (ex-ADA chairman, non-practicing Congregationalist minister) said, when pressed: “I don’t see that it’s terribly damaging.” When Carter spokesman Jody Powell says he doesn’t think the interview will hurt, comments columnist William Raspberry, “he’s whistling past the graveyard.” . . . Senate Minority Whip Robert Byrd thinks Carter never should have accorded Playboy an interview in the first place; Sen. Fritz Hollings (D., S.C.) hopes that when Carter becomes President “he quits talking about adultery.” . . . Not helping much was explanation Carter gave reporters on his whistle stop tour about the Playboy interview. He hadn’t, he explained, yet read it: “I looked at the other parts [of the magazine] first,” according to Frank Van Riper of the New York Daily News. . . . One of the two Carter interviewers, by the way, was Robert Scheer, a former Ramparts editor. . . . Going the unkindly Washington rounds, the new armorial insignia for Carter, a golden screw on a field of white.

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As they see it today: Kevin Phillips, who was saying two weeks ago that Ford had a l-in-5 chance of pulling it out against Carter, now gives him 3-in-10. . . . Evans & Novak call it even closer, making Carter a 3-to-2 favorite. In their new state-by-state breakdown, they now put three big ones—California, Pennsylvania, New York—in the “leaning to” rather than in the “probably for” Carter category. … A late August Harris poll (published Sept. 15) shows another slippage in Carter appeal; voters who viewed him as “the kind of new, fresh face that is needed in the White House” slipped to 52 per cent from 68 per cent a month earlier. . . . The Republican Policy Committee, having pored over the Democratic platform for six weeks, now accuses Carter of being “cynical and deceptive” in promising the voters new federal programs that would cost an additional $700 billion in federal outlays by 1980. . . . Former bank robber and newborn author Willie Sutton doesn’t think much of Republicans (“they don’t know what problems the people have”), but he thinks even less of Democrat Jimmy Carter (“I’ve never seen a bigger confidence man in my life, and I’ve been around some of the best in the business,” he told the Village Voice).

About that Playboy interview. Assistant Carter campaign director Joseph Duffey (ex-ADA chairman, non-practicing Congregationalist minister) said, when pressed: “I don’t see that it’s terribly damaging.” When Carter spokesman Jody Powell says he doesn’t think the interview will hurt, comments columnist William Raspberry, “he’s whistling past the graveyard.” . . . Senate Minority Whip Robert Byrd thinks Carter never should have accorded Playboy an interview in the first place; Sen. Fritz Hollings (D., S.C.) hopes that when Carter becomes President “he quits talking about adultery.” . . . Not helping much was explanation Carter gave reporters on his whistle stop tour about the Playboy interview. He hadn’t, he explained, yet read it: “I looked at the other parts [of the magazine] first,” according to Frank Van Riper of the New York Daily News. . . . One of the two Carter interviewers, by the way, was Robert Scheer, a former Ramparts editor. . . . Going the unkindly Washington rounds, the new armorial insignia for Carter, a golden screw on a field of white.