LETTER FROM WASHINGTON

Cato

One of the nation’s best polling organizations, which works exclusively for the Republican Party and wishes to remain anonymous, has two early readings on the 1972 electorate. Neither reading should please the GOP. The organization disputes the Harris poll findings that although McGovern is very strong among college voters, the President is quite strong among non-college youth. The GOP’s organization finds that the ideologies and lifestyle—including the voting habits—of the college youth are being adopted rapidly by the nonstudent young. It also reports that in spite of the manifest and manifold weaknesses in the McGovern campaign, there are an unprecedented number of voters who are truly “undecided” at this point. This is bad news for the GOP because the Democratic campaign cannot help but get better in the coming weeks.

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One of the nation’s best polling organizations, which works exclusively for the Republican Party and wishes to remain anonymous, has two early readings on the 1972 electorate. Neither reading should please the GOP. The organization disputes the Harris poll findings that although McGovern is very strong among college voters, the President is quite strong among non-college youth. The GOP’s organization finds that the ideologies and lifestyle—including the voting habits—of the college youth are being adopted rapidly by the nonstudent young. It also reports that in spite of the manifest and manifold weaknesses in the McGovern campaign, there are an unprecedented number of voters who are truly “undecided” at this point. This is bad news for the GOP because the Democratic campaign cannot help but get better in the coming weeks.