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■ One month to election and . . . Louis Harris reports McGovern has gone up one point in popularity (he now—Oct. 8—trails by just 27 points) . . . . Evans & Novak conclude if the election were held now McGovern would lose all fifty states, take only the three votes of Washington, D. C. . . . Jimmy (the Greek) Snyder is quoting odds of 15 to 1 against. . . . Washington Post estimates that 46 per cent of the Catholics who voted for Kennedy in 1960 will be going for Nixon in ’72. . . . Editor & Publisher poll shows 548 daily papers with circulation of 17.5 million have come out for Nixon, 38 (circulation 1.4 million) have endorsed McGovern. . . . Miami Herald praised McGovern’s idealism and his antiwar- ism, but gave its support to Nixon because, it said, McGovern “for all his melodic contortions can’t even charm a garter snake.” . . . Even the black vote. Mayor Charles Evers of Fayette, Miss, predicts a large Negro vote for Nixon. Evers says he would have campaigned for McGovern (even though McGovern was so mean to “my friends Humphrey and Daley” in Miami) if he had been asked, but he hasn’t, and he concluded: “Nixon’s turning everybody off and McGovern’s not turning anybody on.” . . . Certainly not with answers like this. When McGovern was asked in Washington recently why he dropped Eagleton, he replied, “We can ill afford to debate this issue while death continues to stalk the face of Indochina and our own nation deteriorates under the worst leadership in our national history.” . . . No, no, no, said Frank Blair of the Today Show in response to an angry question, we are not biased. “We are not saying our Sargent Shriver. We are saying R. Sargent Shriver—it’s his name.”

■ In other races: Republican Ben Toledano’s prospects in Louisiana senatorial race looking up now that former Gov. John McKeithen has entered it as independent. In a two-way confrontation odds would have been on Democratic candidate J. Bennett Johnston Jr. . . . Latest poll in Minneapolis Tribune shows Nixon way ahead of McGovern there but Sen. Mondale leading his opponent, Philip Hansen, by 63 to 35 per cent. . . . John Chafee still playing down his ties with Nixon Administration—a handsome four-color eight-page brochure in Rhode Island Sunday papers mentions Nixon only twice. His race against Sen. Claiborne Pell a cliffhanger. … In Massachusetts, Roger Durkin has entered the race in the 5th CD as independent. That’s where John Kerry of the American Vets against the War is running against almost equally liberal Republican Paul Cronin. . . . In another Massachusetts congressional race, in Fr. Robert Drinan’s district, the Republican candidate Martin Lin- sky has scored a first of a kind. He’s the only Republican state legislator ever to apply for ADA membership.

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■ One month to election and . . . Louis Harris reports McGovern has gone up one point in popularity (he now—Oct. 8—trails by just 27 points) . . . . Evans & Novak conclude if the election were held now McGovern would lose all fifty states, take only the three votes of Washington, D. C. . . . Jimmy (the Greek) Snyder is quoting odds of 15 to 1 against. . . . Washington Post estimates that 46 per cent of the Catholics who voted for Kennedy in 1960 will be going for Nixon in ’72. . . . Editor & Publisher poll shows 548 daily papers with circulation of 17.5 million have come out for Nixon, 38 (circulation 1.4 million) have endorsed McGovern. . . . Miami Herald praised McGovern’s idealism and his antiwar- ism, but gave its support to Nixon because, it said, McGovern “for all his melodic contortions can’t even charm a garter snake.” . . . Even the black vote. Mayor Charles Evers of Fayette, Miss, predicts a large Negro vote for Nixon. Evers says he would have campaigned for McGovern (even though McGovern was so mean to “my friends Humphrey and Daley” in Miami) if he had been asked, but he hasn’t, and he concluded: “Nixon’s turning everybody off and McGovern’s not turning anybody on.” . . . Certainly not with answers like this. When McGovern was asked in Washington recently why he dropped Eagleton, he replied, “We can ill afford to debate this issue while death continues to stalk the face of Indochina and our own nation deteriorates under the worst leadership in our national history.” . . . No, no, no, said Frank Blair of the Today Show in response to an angry question, we are not biased. “We are not saying our Sargent Shriver. We are saying R. Sargent Shriver—it’s his name.”

■ In other races: Republican Ben Toledano’s prospects in Louisiana senatorial race looking up now that former Gov. John McKeithen has entered it as independent. In a two-way confrontation odds would have been on Democratic candidate J. Bennett Johnston Jr. . . . Latest poll in Minneapolis Tribune shows Nixon way ahead of McGovern there but Sen. Mondale leading his opponent, Philip Hansen, by 63 to 35 per cent. . . . John Chafee still playing down his ties with Nixon Administration—a handsome four-color eight-page brochure in Rhode Island Sunday papers mentions Nixon only twice. His race against Sen. Claiborne Pell a cliffhanger. … In Massachusetts, Roger Durkin has entered the race in the 5th CD as independent. That’s where John Kerry of the American Vets against the War is running against almost equally liberal Republican Paul Cronin. . . . In another Massachusetts congressional race, in Fr. Robert Drinan’s district, the Republican candidate Martin Lin- sky has scored a first of a kind. He’s the only Republican state legislator ever to apply for ADA membership.