Word: precinct
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With over half of the precinct votes tallied, the focus of yesterday's Massachusetts presidential primary is on a surprise showing by Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who didn't enter the race until after the polls had opened...
...loyalists are finding themselves with shrinking armies to command. In Utah, pro-Johnson Governor Calvin Rampton declared after learning that six of his eight top nonsalaried advisers prefer New York Senator Robert Kennedy: "I may have a tough time holding the delegation for Johnson." In Iowa, where Democratic precinct caucuses last week showed that Senator McCarthy might pick up as many as 21 of the state's 46 convention votes, Governor Harold Hughes was palpably wavering. Sighed California's ex-Governor Pat Brown, a Johnson man: "Right now, we're dead in the water out here...
Latest returns from Iowa precinct caucuses show McCarthy and Kennedy in stronger positions than Johnson to take the state's 46 convention votes in August. Also, McCarthy backers are conducting a phone-call fund-raising drive at Harvard for their candidate. See page eight for both stories...
DAVENPORT, Iowa, March 26--With returns from Monday evening's 2484 Democratic precinct caucuses still coming in, Senator Eugene J. McCarthy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy '48 have emerged in stronger positions than President Johnson to capture Iowa's 46 national convention votes...
McCarthy's cause was boosted a bit in Minnesota and California as well. In his home state, McCarthy surprisingly was assured of 16 of Minnesota's 62 Democratic delegates during party precinct caucuses. In California, McCarthy partisans held midnight-to-dawn petition parties to sign on voters to validate his position on the state's June 4 primary ballot. Working all night, his supporters collected more than 28,000 signatures. Being first in with their petitions, they gained the top spot on the ballot for McCarthy-a considerable psychological advantage, since Johnson will be represented in California...