Is Carter-Humphrey bout coming?
By DAVID S. BRODER
MILWAUKEE — Ronald
Reagan’s upset victory over Pres
ident Ford in North Carolina was
the latest sharp reminder to the
politicians not to count their
chickens before they are
hatched. But when it comes to
prenatal prophecy, be it fowl or
fair, the politicians are incurable
recidivists.
Thus, it is not surprising that
even as Mr. Ford is trying to re
move the traces of Tarheel from
the Superman cloak he was wear
ing after five straight wins, a
number of leading Democratic
thinkers have leaped ahead of
the primary game and are mul
ling the odds on the race they
expect to begin on June 9 — the
contest between Jimmy Carter
and Hubert Humphrey.
What makes this exercise in
mental gymnastics a bit more
than theoretical is that two of the
more vivid players happen to be
the former Governor of Georgia
and the distinguished junior
senator from Minnesota.
When Hamilton Jordan, the
widely admired manager of the
Carter campaign, visited in
Washington last week with a
group of labor politicians, they
found his mind fixed on the shape
of a Carter-Humphrey show
down.
And when Carter himself
started talking out here this week
about his main enemy being “not
the candidates who run against
me” but “the establishment” that
is “hoping and praying for a dead
lock convention,” it was obvious
that he was looking ahead to
Humphrey.
“The establishment” is a code
word for Humphrey in Carter’s
lexicon, in much the same way
that “the Washington buddy sys
tem” is a euphemism for the
Ford administration in Reagan’s
speeches.
As for Humphrey, he con
firmed what everyone has long
known when he told Carl Leus-
dorf of the Baltimore Sun last
week that he “wouldn’t foreclose
the possibility” of plunring into
an active bid for the nomination if
— as he thinks likely — the final
day of primaries on June 8 leaves
the front-runner substantially
short of the 1,505 votes needed
for nomination.
Repeatedly this week, Hum
phrey has told reporters that the
Democrats cannot win the elec
tion by running “against Wash-
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ington” and the whole system of
federal programs they them
selves have legislated into being
over the last 40-odd years. “You
don’t win many elections by
going around and repudiating
your inheritance, ” he said. Itwas
an obvious jab at the Georgian —
who has, in fact, made a major
virtue of his skepticism toward
Washington and its ways.
What has brought both Hum
phrey and Carter — and a sig
nificant number of others con
cerned with the opposition par
ty’s future — to their current
preoccupation with this theoreti
cal race is the realization that
Carter could be as few as two
wins away from eliminating the
active opposition.
A clear victory over Rep.
Morris K. Udall of Arizona in
Wisconsin on April 6 and a simi
lar win over Sen. Henry M.
Jackson of Washington in
Pennsylvania on April 27 and,
voila. Carter’s the One.
The only difficulty with this
script is that while written, it has
not yet been produced.
Udall stubbornly refuses to go
quietly to his “political burial” as
he called it here this week. He
has enlisted a formidable array of
Wisconsin congressmen and
labor leaders on his behalf. His
chances of winning the Wiscon
sin primary or the nomination
are rated low even by some of
those nominally supporting him
in this state.
1 After all, he has never finished
first so far, they note.
In New Hampshire, Carter
finished 4,663 votes ahead of
Udall. In Massachusetts, the
only other state where both cam
paigned, Udall finished 26,227
votes ahead of Carter.
A similar point can be made
about the assumption that Carter
would be any kind of favorite to
defeat Jackson in Pennsylvania in
what many see as an April 27
showdown for those two men.
Jackson beat Carter in their first
meeting in Massachusetts, lost to
him in Florida, and is strongly
favored to finish in front of him in
New York on April 6.
Why that should leave Jackson
vulnerable in Pennsylvania is
hard to calculate. But the belief
in Carter’s “momentum,” and
the near shock his series of
victories has induced among
many who had dismissed him
earlier this year, have now made
the Georgian seem almost invul
nerable in their eyes. Just as in
vulnerable as Mr. Ford was mov
ing into North Carolina.
There are two axioms that
apply in politics: Many
prophecies are wrong. But some
prophecies are self-fulfilling. The
prospect of a Carter-Humphrey
race is — you may be confident
— one or the other.
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