THE BATTALION 'll WOlv /one.JI npus d Jn’tanii ' X PHCIARE NOU BOW THE WINNER- NOW, GIT!' More people vote Demo Jnstkli lent. id slo« Associated Press ASH1NGTON — Popular vote in the nation’s first six primary ions hold an ominous message iepublicans: more than two- of the 5.96 million votes cast in Democratic ballots, id although President Ford has j i the choice of 55.6 per cent of . can jblicans voting in these ■ i'i aides, his popular vote total of ^ million is less than the 1.53 mill- lolled by Jimmy Carter, who is jf a stable of Democratic candi- who at one time numbered as as 12. twos y. Bui 3 donei campus icemed arter was the favorite of 37.9 per of Democrats voting so far. oresoaHie popular vote totals may come study by party strategists since [may indicate that more people roting as Democrats than gener- ] tel! pollsters they consider nsclves to he Democrats. i the primaries so far, about 68 Icent of the voters have marked nocratic ballots, although the up Poll showed last fall that on a I HIE MUST 60 SACK TO THE CHIIPHOOP S'EARS OF OUR \m AlRUNE STEtUAROESSES :VEWN PAT AND SHIRLEY... nationwide basis only 44 per cent of the American voters considered themselves to be members of the Democratic party. That poll last September also showed only 21 per cent thought of themselves as Republicans, the GOP’s lowest point since the Depre ssion. The other 35 told Gallup they were independents. Some primaries in the past have been prone to crossover voting where a member of one party votes on the other party’s ballot. But there has been little reason this year to suspect crossover voting because every primary has been contested except the GOP balloting in tiny Vermont and because Democratic party rules now do their best to bar Republicans from getting Democra tic ballots. States voting so far are New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Ver mont, Florida, Illinois and North Carolina. All except Massachusetts went for Republican Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential election. But in this year’s primaries, more Democratic votes were cast in all those states except New Hampshire, a traditional Republican state. Of course considerations will be far different in November than in primary balloting. For example, a voter who favored a conservative Democrat in a primary might vote for a Republican in November. Voting by candidate is subject to qualification because every candi date except Carter has skipped ac tive campaigning in one or more primaries, although their names were sometimes on the ballot. On the other hand, candidates sometimes skipped primaries in states where they believed they would do poorly. WASHINGTON — Victory in North Carolina is a shot of adrenalin for Ronald Reagan’s White House challenge, but political arithmetic shows it will be difficult for even his optimistic projections in smaller states to outweigh President Ford’s domination of the larger ones. After bowing to Ford in four con secutive contested primaries, Reagan won a solid upset victory in North Carolina balloting, because, he said, voters are beginning to catch on to his attacks against Ford. On the Democratic side, Jimmy Carter won his fifth primary in six tries. His 3-to-2 margin over George C. Wallace further dampened the Alabama governor’s chances of doing anything more at the Democratic National Convention than using a core of delegates in an attempt to influence party policy. For Reagan, the 52 per cent vic tory was a needed boost both psychologically and for his fund raisers. After last week’s thumping at the hands of Ford in Illinois, a number of Republican officials had started to exert pressure on Reagan to quit the race in order to aid Re publican chances in November. Now Reagan can push on to the Texas Primary May 1 and other dele gate selection events he claims will put him in position to win the nomi nation in August. But before then, he is yielding without challenge huge chunks of de legates in New York and Pennsyl vania which are likely to add to the big-state margins Ford has already built with his primary victories in Illinois and Florida. Ford is alone on the ballot April 27 for Pennsylvania’s 103 delegates. In New York, April 6, the dominant slate is nominally uncommitted hut is headed by Ford’s vice president. Nelson A. Rockefeller. Reagan also considered passing up Ohio June 8, but now one group is trying to put together a full slate on his behalf in advance of Thursday’s primary filing deadline. But the bulk of organization Republicans are on Ford’s slate for the 97-slate primary. The nine states with the largest delegations together account for 939 votes — less than 200 short of the 1,130 needed for nomination. Reagan is counting on winning a good share of the 100 Texas dele gates, but he will also face battles with Ford in New Jersey and Michi gan — the latter Ford’s home state. That leaves California with its winner-take-all, 167-delegate prim ary June 8 as a must-win event for its former governor, even if his hopes in middle-sized and smaller states materialize. The difference between psychological and arithmetical vic tory is well illustrated by North Carolina. Reagan won only three de legates more than Ford, 28 to 25. News Analysis That left the President still in over all-delegate command 206 to 81, with 52 others uncommitted. Reagan insists he has a substantial lead in Arizona, Alaska, Oklahoma, Iowa, South Carolina and Washington, states which are at local levels of delegate selection. Party figures from Iowa, however, conflict with his assessment, show ing delegates in a dead heat on Ford-Reagan preference. Ford offered no excuses for the defeat, telling a group of Republican leaders at the White House that “it’s never good to come in second.” Looking to his next contest against Reagan, April 6 in Wisconsin, the President said, “It will be close but we expect to win. We expect to go to Kansas City, and we expect to be nominated.” Reagan said before the North Carolina balloting that Ford might have a bigger bloc of delegates arriv ing at Kansas City, but that uncom mitted delegates would hold the ba lance of power and nominate him. On arriving in Los Angeles after his victory, he told supporters, “We’re going to continue the cam paign and continue talking about the issues, and I hope as we continue we can have a discussion of them.” Hours before his victory, his staff announced that Reagan would cur tail campaigning in Wisconsin in order to concentrate on a planned nationally-televised speech. No topic has been announced. While the Republican result was a turnaround. Carter’s rout of Wallace was a further expansion of the trend he began with a narrow victory over the Alabaman in Florida and broadened last week in Illinois. Despite his front-running status with 167 delegates, nearly twice the 86 of runnerup Wallace, Carter faces two other leading candidates in up coming Wisconsin and New York balloting. Rep. Morris K. Udall, D-Ariz., is aiming for an initial primary victory in Wisconsin. Sen. Harry M. 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