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Primary wrap-up
The results: what the candidates say > what they imply
Associated Press
MIAMI — President Ford has run his early primary election record
to four-for-four with triumph in Florida, and he is in clear command of
his Republican contest with Ronald Reagan as the focus shifts to
Illinois.
Jimmy Carter, meanwhile, swept past George Wallace in Demo
cratic balloting Tuesday in the state once claimed by the Alabama
governor.
The ballot listed a dozen Democrats, but Pennsylvania Gov. Milton
Shapp was the only one besides the top three to actively seek support.
He got 31,024 votes, or 2 per cent of the total. That was slightly more
than Arizona Rep. Morris K. Udall — who didn’t campaign in the state
but got 26,257. Three per cent of the voters — 37,348 — voted no
preference.
Indiana Sen. Birch Bayh, who announced suspension of his cam
paign last week, trailed Udall with 8,552 votes, followed by Miami
evangelist Arthur Blessitt, 8,171; prolife candidate Ellen McCormack,
7,481; Sargent Shriver, the party’s vice presidential nominee in 1972,
6,871; Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, 5,910; former Oklahoma
Sen. Fred Harris, 5,666; and Idaho Sen. Frank Church, 5,456.
With primary triumphs in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Ver
mont and now Florida behind him. Ford turns his attention to Illinois.
The White House said he will travel to the state for a two-day campaign
swing before the primary there next Tuesday.
Florida’s voter turnout on a day that began with scattered thunder
showers and ended under mostly sunny skies was a bit heavier than
earlier predicted. About 56 per cent of the GOP’s registered voters
made it to the polls, about 52 per cent of the registered Democrats cast
ballots.
Associated Press
MIAMI — President Ford is
rapidly deflating Ronald Reagan’s
Republican presidential bid, leaving
his challenger in dire need of a com
eback to pump it up again.
And Georgia’s Jimmy Carter has
climbed back atop the Democratic
field with a victory that made a
shambles of Gov. George C. Wal
lace’s campaign.
So read Chapter Four, Florida’s
installment in the presidential pri
mary election story. Now the test is
in Illinois, next Tuesday.
Republican Reagan is far from
finished, but he can’t go on meeting
Ford like this and losing, as he did in
Florida Tuesday.
Yet he already is saying that he
never considered Illinois one of his
stronger states. The former Califor
nia governor had better get to one
soon if he is going to dislodge Ford.
Reagan insisted he is in the race to
stay, until the day the delegate num
bers guarantee Ford the GOP nomi
nation. He said he does not think
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that will happen during the primary
season and forecast a showdown at
the Republican National Convention
next August.
After all, Reagan said in Rock Is
land, Ill., Tuesday night, he has
gained almost half the Republican
vote in each of his two direct primary
tests with Ford.
But almost half is losing, and he
needs a win. Reagan can keep run
ning by coming close, but if that be
comes the pattern, his campaign will
become a hollow exercise. '
The Ford camp was talking about
bandwagons and trains pulling out,
the traditional language of winners
trying to convince GOP politicians to
climb aboard now because there
might not be room later.
Alabama’s Wallace was the big
loser on the Democratic side. Four
years ago, Florida was the scene of a
major Wallace triumph, a 42 per cent
presidential primary victory over the
whole Democratic field.
This time Florida belonged to Car
ter, and that undercut Wallace’s
Southern political base. And it could
Carter doubts that Wallace will
be a real factor in democratic
politics now.
be the beginning of the undoing of
Wallace as a force in national Demo
cratic politics.
Florida was Carter’s third presi
dential primary win, with New
Hampshire and Vermont.
“I don’t see anybody ahead of me
now; but we still have 30 or 40 states
left to go, ” the former Georgia gov
ernor said. He was heading for
Chicago today, to campaign for next
week’s match against Wallace,
former Oklahoma Sen. Fred R. Har
ris and Sargent Shriver.
Carter said he doesn’t consider the
Wallace campaign finished by
Florida. But he also said that he
doubts the Alabama governor will be
a real factor in Democratic politics
now.
Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Wash
ington ran third among the Demo
crats, his Florida gamble a failure.
He did, as he noted, gain about a
quarter of the state’s national con
vention delegates. But he failed in
what clearly was an effort to block
Carter’s climb.
Nonetheless, Jackson claimed a
good omen in his Miami area plural
ity, saying that is the kind of popul
ous territory a Democrat must cap
ture to win nomination and the
White House. He called Florida no
more than a way station and chal
lenged Carter to the test of New
York’s April 6 primary.
“No one will win the Democratic
nomination unless he can carry the
big city, industrial areas of the coun
try, and that’s what I can do,’ said
Jackson, who won last week in Mas
sachusetts with 23 per cent of the
vote. Carter ran fourth there.
With the Florida vote counted
completed, this was the outcome;
Ford 318,844 or 53 per cent.
Reagan 282,618 or 47 per cent.
That translated to 43 national con
vention delegates for Ford, 23 for
Reagan.
And among the Democrats:
Carter 439,870 or 34 per cent.
Wallace 392,105 or 31 per cent.
Jackson 306,120 or 24 per cent.
Three per cent of the vote was cast
in favor of sending uncommitted
delegates to the Democratic conven-
If Reagan continues his record of
being a close second, his cam
paign will become a hollow exer
cise.
tion, and that was more than any of
the other nine candidates got.
Delegates were apportioned this
way on the basis of statewide and
congressional district showings: Car
ter 34, Wallace 26, Jackson 21.
Reagan claimed to have been de
lighted that he came close. But that
was hard to sell in view of the op
timistic forecasts once posted by his
campaign manager, L. E. Thomas.
“Two-thirds of the Republicans in
Florida want Reagan,” he had said
early in the campaign. “I guess a
campaign chairman shouldn’t really
be predicting such fantastic odds,
but it’s true.”
If his figures were not prophetic,
his comment about the risk of such a
prediction was. Thomas toned it
down later, and Reagan disavowed it
altogether. But it was on the record,
to be measured against Reagan’s
election night statement:
“I have to tell you that we are till
delighted on our side .... Presi
dent Ford in these first couple of
primaries has thrown the whole load
at us, he has shot all the big artillery
there is, used everything in the in
cumbency that he can, and we re still
possessing almost half the Republi
can vote.”
Ford said simply that he was over
joyed — and that it was not the time
to answer questions about the possi
bility that Reagan might be forced
from the race.
Among the other assessments and
portents of Florida:
— Wallace, in Oak Park, Ill., said
that while he would rather have won,
Carter said the Democratic race
is now between him, Jackson and
Udall.
he felt good about the outcome.
“Florida is not exactly a so-called
Southern state,” he said. “It’s a fine
state, it’s a cosmopolitan state.” He
didn t talk about geography when he
won it in the last campaign.
— Carter said the outcome len
him, Jackson and Rep. Morris K.
Udall of Arizona as the contenders
for the Democratic nomination.
— Udall, vacationing in Rucson,
Ariz., said he looks forward to com
peting with Carter in Wisconsin and
New York on April 6. He said the
Florida vote demonstrates “the
burning need for progressive forces”
to coalesce behind one candidate —
him.
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