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Singing the blues: A Christian Science Monitor survey of Democratic leaders around the country shows enthusiasm for none of the presidential candidates. The enthusiasm even for frontrunning non-running Edward Kennedy can be summed up, says the Monitor, as “two cheers for Teddy.” … A poll by the Democratic State Committee in New York showed surprising strength for one (as yet) nonstarter, Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana, who racked up an 11 per cent vote; and this has started a Bayh boomlet. He could yet emerge as the darling of the Democratic Left, replacing Morris Udall who isn’t catching on. . . . Also in the wings: a possible candidacy by California’s maverick Gov. Jerry Brown, who says he’s “reluctant now,” but “I don’t rule out things. I like to rule things in.” . . . Brown ranked second in a Melvin Field preference poll of California voters last week. It was Teddy first (37 per cent), Brown second (12 per cent), Wallace third (10 per cent).

A late August poll in California shows Ronald Reagan now trailing Gerald Ford among GOP voters there by nine points; in May, Reagan led Ford by seven points. . . . Reagan’s campaign aide, John Sears, expects his principal to get in the race officially sometime before Thanksgiving; Sears says he’ll have active Reagan organizations in every state of the union before Ian. 1. … A Wall Street Journal testing in New Hampshire shows Ford ahead of Reagan there and Udall ahead of the rest of the Democratic field, organizationally.

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Singing the blues: A Christian Science Monitor survey of Democratic leaders around the country shows enthusiasm for none of the presidential candidates. The enthusiasm even for frontrunning non-running Edward Kennedy can be summed up, says the Monitor, as “two cheers for Teddy.” … A poll by the Democratic State Committee in New York showed surprising strength for one (as yet) nonstarter, Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana, who racked up an 11 per cent vote; and this has started a Bayh boomlet. He could yet emerge as the darling of the Democratic Left, replacing Morris Udall who isn’t catching on. . . . Also in the wings: a possible candidacy by California’s maverick Gov. Jerry Brown, who says he’s “reluctant now,” but “I don’t rule out things. I like to rule things in.” . . . Brown ranked second in a Melvin Field preference poll of California voters last week. It was Teddy first (37 per cent), Brown second (12 per cent), Wallace third (10 per cent).

A late August poll in California shows Ronald Reagan now trailing Gerald Ford among GOP voters there by nine points; in May, Reagan led Ford by seven points. . . . Reagan’s campaign aide, John Sears, expects his principal to get in the race officially sometime before Thanksgiving; Sears says he’ll have active Reagan organizations in every state of the union before Ian. 1. … A Wall Street Journal testing in New Hampshire shows Ford ahead of Reagan there and Udall ahead of the rest of the Democratic field, organizationally.