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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
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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
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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.
Jackson, D-Wash., is working to ce
ment his Jewish-voter base for a vic
tory in N ew York he hopes can add to
momentum he gained with an earlier
decision over Udall, Wallace and
Carter in Massachusetts.
Carter, in Milwaukee Wednes
day, noted Udall and Jackson victory
predictions and said, “I’m going to
cut down the margin of Udall’s vic
tory and cut into Jackson’s landslide.
In answer to a question about the
Wisconsin race. Carter said, “I’ll
come in first or second.
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331 University
(Upstairs above Kesami)
Monday
March 29
8:00 p.m.
Rudder
Theater
$1.00
informal
discussion
afterward
led by
Dr. Wulf
Koepke
“A brilliantly
macabre, always
fascinating, excur
sion into a dark-
bright dream world.”
TIME MAGAZINE
“Lyrical, perverse
and bizarre . . . one of
the most electrifying
confrontations of
normality by
abnormality in the
history of cinema.
Don’t miss it.”
ANDREW SARRIS,
THE VILLAGE VOICE
“Profound, powerful
and spellbinding.”
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT
JEAN COCTEAU S MASTERPIECE
LES
ENFANTS TERRIBLES
STARRING
NICOLE STEPHANE
AND EDOUARD DERMITHE
DIRECTED BY
JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE
“A Film Classic of a
complex relationship
between brother and
sister with a great
performance by
Nicole Stephane.”
WILLIAM WOLF. CUE
” 'Les Enfants
Terribles’ is a
neglected master
piece, and its time is
long overdue.”
JIM D’ANNA, WRVR
V.
ACTIVIT
Columbia University, will speak on the future. Dr. Bell is
the author of several books among which the most recent
is The Coming of the Post Industrial Society, a landmark
treatise on the conversion of our industrial society to a
service economy. The program begins at 8:00 P.M. in
Rudder Theatre. Admission to both programs is $1.00 for
non-activity card holders and free for those with activity
cards.
TOWN HALL
COMING UP
NEXT
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The University of Texas Wind Ensemble is coming back
to the A&M campus as part of Town Hall’s Young Artist
Series. Those of you who heard these t.u. students here
last time will agree that an amazing amount of talent is
embodied in this 50-member ensemble, formed in the fall
of 1973 on the Austin campus. They will perform on
Tuesday, March 30, at 8:00 P.M. in Rudder Theatre.
Prices are as follows:
A&M Student with Activity Card
Non A&M Student Date
General Public
free
$1.00
$2.50
ARTS
GREAT ISSUES
Great Issues will kick off their spring series “The Nature
of Man, Past, Present and Future” on Monday, March 29.
The guest speaker will be Richard Leakey, and the topic is
“The History of Man.” Never fear, it won’t be a dull
lecture on mankind’s past! Richard Leakey has been re
sponsible for findings which have shattered the theories of
his fellow anthropologists. Having no formal university
education he instead received a more practical form of
training from his famous parents. Dr. Louis and Mary
Leakey, in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzaniaf. The program
will begin at 7:30 P.M. in Rudder Auditorium.
The second program in the series will be held on Thurs
day, April 1. Dr. Daniel Bell, professor of sociology at
If you happened to enter any of your creative efforts in the
field of rhyme and verse to the Arts Committee in hopes of
receiving a Poetry Award, then you will be interested to
know that the awards will be announced on Wednesday,
March 31, at 8:00 P.M. in Rudder Theatre. The guest
poet will be Robert Bly, a very important man in the
world of poetry. Bly has founded/edited a poetry
magazine specializing in English Translations of South
American and European Poetry, and has received several
Fellowships and awards for his poetry. This man will be a
treat to listen to, and he will give readings of poetry in a
style you will not soon forget! Come and see your fellow
Aggies (or yourself) get awarded for their poetry! Admis
sion is free to all.
The film “Les Enfants Terribles” will be shown in Rudder
Theatre on Monday, March 29 at 8:00 P.M. Admission is
$1.00, and tickets are available at the Box Office.