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■ With pre-election days dwindling, big story is Anderson fade. CBS/ New York Times poll shows Anderson support fell from 14 per cent in mid-September to 9 per cent near end of month. Voters deserting Anderson now moving to Reagan, but if Anderson’s hard-core supporters leave him they will probably go to Carter. To encourage this, says Carter campaign chairman Robert Strauss, Carterites have placed ads saying a vote for Anderson is a vote for Reagan. . . . Reagan strategists split between hawks and doves. Stand-patters won debate on debates: Reagan won’t meet Carter unless Carter moves up in polls. . . . Columnist David Broder reports that Carter’s refusal of three-man debate may be enough to prompt Anderson to remain until bitter end, à la Ted Kennedy. . . . Carter aides expected Iraq-Iran war to give their man five points in the polls, but it hasn’t worked that way, say Evans & Novak, because U.S. has little role to play. War also reduces, to around zero, chances that hostages will be freed before election. . . . If Carter makes it four more years, liberals in the Carter camp are resigned to four more years of Zbigniew Brzezinski. They say he has so endeared himself to Rosalynn Carter that Carter will never dare fire him.

■ Study by Common Cause reports ten largest recipients of campaign gifts in Senate races, mostly Democrats, are: Russell Long (D., La ), Donald Stewart (D., Ala.), Alan Cranston (D., Calif.), Warren Magnuson (D., Wash.), James Abdnor (R., S.D.—he’s running for McGovern seat), Birch Bayh (D., Ind.), Steven Symms (R., Idaho—running for Church seat), Herman Talmadge (D., Ga.), Dan Quayle (R., Ind.—running against Bayh), and Ernest Hollings (D., S.C.). One of these (Stewart) has already been knocked off. . . . Democratic senators considered most vulnerable in November: McGovern, Culver (Iowa), and Church. Following them, Durkin (N.H,), Hart (Colo.), Leahy (Vt.), Nelson (Wis.). . . . Proposition 13 lives. Clones of California measure will be on ballot in Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and South Dakota.

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■ With pre-election days dwindling, big story is Anderson fade. CBS/ New York Times poll shows Anderson support fell from 14 per cent in mid-September to 9 per cent near end of month. Voters deserting Anderson now moving to Reagan, but if Anderson’s hard-core supporters leave him they will probably go to Carter. To encourage this, says Carter campaign chairman Robert Strauss, Carterites have placed ads saying a vote for Anderson is a vote for Reagan. . . . Reagan strategists split between hawks and doves. Stand-patters won debate on debates: Reagan won’t meet Carter unless Carter moves up in polls. . . . Columnist David Broder reports that Carter’s refusal of three-man debate may be enough to prompt Anderson to remain until bitter end, à la Ted Kennedy. . . . Carter aides expected Iraq-Iran war to give their man five points in the polls, but it hasn’t worked that way, say Evans & Novak, because U.S. has little role to play. War also reduces, to around zero, chances that hostages will be freed before election. . . . If Carter makes it four more years, liberals in the Carter camp are resigned to four more years of Zbigniew Brzezinski. They say he has so endeared himself to Rosalynn Carter that Carter will never dare fire him.

■ Study by Common Cause reports ten largest recipients of campaign gifts in Senate races, mostly Democrats, are: Russell Long (D., La ), Donald Stewart (D., Ala.), Alan Cranston (D., Calif.), Warren Magnuson (D., Wash.), James Abdnor (R., S.D.—he’s running for McGovern seat), Birch Bayh (D., Ind.), Steven Symms (R., Idaho—running for Church seat), Herman Talmadge (D., Ga.), Dan Quayle (R., Ind.—running against Bayh), and Ernest Hollings (D., S.C.). One of these (Stewart) has already been knocked off. . . . Democratic senators considered most vulnerable in November: McGovern, Culver (Iowa), and Church. Following them, Durkin (N.H,), Hart (Colo.), Leahy (Vt.), Nelson (Wis.). . . . Proposition 13 lives. Clones of California measure will be on ballot in Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and South Dakota.