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PAGE TWO BRENHAM BANNER PRESS WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 1971
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Bruce Biossat- *
Standoffs Unlikely In 1972 Primaries
Another poorly supported myth is developing: that the
Democrats' cornucopia of candidates means the 1972
presidential primaries could produce a lot of inconclusive
results. Possible, but not very likely
Of the 10 states with binding primaries, seven will be
choosing their delegates to the Miami Beach convention
by some sort of fragmented arrangement. In five cases
this means most delegates will be chosen by congres-
sional districts, with 20 to 30 per cent of the state's allot-
ment selected at large. In two states, delegates will be
tied to presidential candidates on the basis of the con-
tenders’ proportion of the state vote.
Since Florida’s 81-vote March 14 primary is much in
the spotlight, let's see how things might work out there.
First off, even if six or seven presidential bidders
should be tossed into that contest by the state's six-mem-
* ber selection committee, probably only two or three are
going to get much of a vote.
Chances are good that the lesser candidates will just
sliver up their own small piece of the vote pie. If any
one of these does better than that, he might diminish the
Vote for one of the stronger candidates in a district or
two—or corral a handful of delegates for himself. Not
more.
The strong prospects in Florida right now are Senators
Edmund Muskie and Henry Jackson, plus Alabama’s Gov.
George Wallace if he should decide to make the run and
be named to that primary ballot.
For argument’s sake, presume Muskie gets only a
whisker more than half of the 61 delegates to be elected
in Florida’s present 12 congressional districts, and that
Wallace, Jackson, and perhaps Sen. George McGovern
or New York Mayor John Lindsay divide the other 30.
Even if one of the mentioned major Muskie rivals gets
all 30 against his 31, the theoretical setup would be the
same Now presume also that in getting his 31. Muskie
polls the largest vote statewide. He automatically picks
up the 18 Florida at-large votes (not counting the two
representing the national committeeman and committee-
woman, supposed free agents in Florida as elsewhere).
Muskie in this situation would thus have a sure 49
votes (31 and 18), and maybe the two free agents as well.
With six or more people in the race, he could easily wind
up with a 5 to 3 victory. That is not “inconclusive” by
any professional political standards heretofore known.
It would be as good for Wallace, Jackson or anybody
else running in Florida if one of them, instead of Muskie,
were the statewide vote .victor.
For Florida, now read’Indiana, Wisconsin, Maryland
and Tennessee. No matter how close the district delegate
split, the.statewide winner in Indiana will pick up 17 at-
large votes, in Wisconsin an extra 14 votes, in Tennessee
11 votes. The present Maryland formula gives the state-
wide victor virtually nothing additional. But those figures
in the other listed states suggest some candidate is going
to get a winning delegate margin which will make the
much-abused word “standoff” look silly.
So—indecisive results seem highly improbable in at
least four of the five binding primaries discussed here.
Next take the two proportional representation states-
New Mexico (16 elected delegates, plus the usual two
extras) and North Carolina (62, plus two). In New Mexico,
the 16 will be divided between just the two top presidential
vote-getters. In North Carolina, the 62 will be split among
the top four bidders, but among less than four if any of
those get less than 15 per cent of the statewide total.
Hence, again, inconclusive standoffs do not appear likely.
Paul Harvey--
President Nixon Discovering Who His Friends Are
By PAUL HARVEY to walk alone down the middle wedges between Nixon and Goldwater applauding one W Va ,) Reps Joe D we would have something to
• Banner Columnist of the road being stoned from Reagan ′ and Nixon and another increasingly between Waggoneer (D-La.) and John worry about This President is
Conservatives of prominence both sides, than to walk down Goldwater, so far without now and the next election Rousselot (R-Calif.) and John not that
are pulling their support out either sidewalk in the .success. • Conservatives are NcKevitt (R-Colo.)- Their Sen Goldwater may yet be
from under President Nixon, comparative safety of our Indeed, Gov. Reagan characterized, by their expressions of anxiety over the able to ^P the more
It’s got to be the most extremist friends." * appealed to the YAF to hold off independence This is both President's overtures to stubbornly conservative from
heartbreaking experience of President Nixon’s strength criticizing the President's new their strength and their Peking make a cautious feeler pulling away -- or from staying
any man’s political life when comes from the "grass roots," China policy and “give him a weakness, sound like an abject surrender home on Election Day.
his friends desert him, from what he calls "our chance." - Historically, nobody knows They appear to forget that The other night he told some
But this President has some nation’s heartland." And Sen. Goldwater, who more about “competing," Mr. Nixon's awareness of the of them they’d better support
friends who won’t. Yet recently, over the Red knows better than anybody the nobody knows less about co- magnitude of the international Nixon when he runs again
It was President Nixon’s China overture, we’ve seen the political price of intraparty operating Communist conspiracy in most because Reagan is not going to
mentor, Gen Eisenhower, who conservative journals -- petulance, is doing all he can to Listen to Sens John Tower instances predates their own run in ’72 and because the
told him in advance that this Saturday Review and Human hold conservatives behind (R-Tex.) and Strom Thurmond If a naive President, were alternative to a near-right
would happen Events-condemning the Nixon (R-SC ) and Robert Byrd (D- making this trip in our behalf, Nixon is a far-left Democrat
Gen. Ejsenhower predicted President. Sen. Goldwater’s stock _________^---------
that Nixon would be a better Young conservatives, the soared with publication of the rrri T 1 c
President than politician Young Americans . for secret “Pentagon Papers." As The Fighter Side--
though that might cost him a Freedom, withdrew their a speaker he is now more in _
second term. support of President Nixon, demand than is Agnew, A — . m re
It was Eisenhower who said. And the disciples of You will hear the Nixon t an Tt an I o 0 I 1M of
“It takes much more courage divisiveness are trying to drive Administration and Barry UICILUIL UI NICU I DU c lLS
Someone in
the South will win
this bag of money.
Why not you?
By DICK WEST comrades, but how about world believe a nine mile
WASHINGTON (UPb —Ru- having our beloved Chairman swim
mors that Mao Tse-tung was Mao demonstrate his fitness by San Yan Sun: Would the rest
dead or seriously ill cropped up turning cartwheels along the of the world believe our
again this week and promptly entire length of the Great Wall beloved chairman hopping
met with denials from Chinese Sun San Yan: I like it. A nonstop across the Gobi Desert
Communist sources , photo of our beloved chairman on a pogo stick?
The last time that happened, standing on his hands atop the
you'll recall, the Chinese dealt parapet would be front-paged
with the rumor by releasing a the world over
photograph purporting to show Yan Sun San: Truly a
their septuagenarian . leader capital, pardon the expression,
taking a nine-mile swim in the suggestion, comrade But the
Yangtze River Great Wall is 1,500 miles long.
That's a lot of cartwheels even
1 say "purporting" because for someone as robust and
the way his head was sticking nimble as our beloved
above the water indicated he
either had learned to swim
chairman
PRE- SIFTED
Yan Sun San: Not very
likely For maximum impact,
the feat should be relevant as '
well as credible
San Yan Sun: I think I've got
it! How about Chairman Mao
playing, and winning, one.
thousand consecutive games of
ping pong?
Sun San Yan: Perfect! And
to make it more democratic we
Sun San Yan: A good point, can send out a photograph
vertically or else was walking comrade We had enough showing him leaping over the
trouble making the rest of the net
along the bottom.
Indeed, some skeptics went
so far as to suggest that Mao rx 1-- T A
was not plying the Yangtze at I odav I KI H ISIOTV
all but had been snapped while A ” tec J nth * T De VA 3
reclining in a large vat of won
ton soup. , By United Press International
. Today is Wednesday, Sept.
Nevertheless, speculation 29, the 272nd day of 1971 with 93
about the state of Mao's health to follow
soon subsided. But that was in The moon is between its first
July, 1966, when China's head quarter and full phase
Red was a mere 72. The morning stars are
Assuming, as Peking claims, Mercury and Saturn
that Mao still is hale and The evening stars are Venus
hearty at the age of 77, he may and Jupiter
have a tougher time convincing On this day in history:
the world of his salubrity. In 1789. theU.S. War
Even now the People s Department set up a regular
Republic Committee on Arnaz- Army of 700 men to serve three
ing Physical Manifestations years
may be in session to decide on In 1923, Great Britain began
an appropriate feat ..„ to govern Palestine under a
San Yan Sun: Im only League of Nations mandate.
thinking off the top of my head. In 1936, in the presidential
campaign between President
Franklin D Roosevelt and Alf
Landon, both parties went on
radio for the first time
In 1963, Pope Paul VI opened
the second session of the
Ecumenical Council in St
Peter’s Basilica
A thought for the day •
British journalist Henry
Vollman Morton said “One
drink of wine and you act like a
monkey; two drinks and you
strut like a peacock; three
drinks and you roar like a lion,
four drinks ... and you behave
like a pig "
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