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...Indiana, for example, the New Yorker's May 7 primary victory had assured him of at least 53 of the state's 63 convention votes. After Kennedy's death, Indiana party leaders declared that the slate would go uncommitted to Chicago, but in fact Governor Roger Branigin, who ran as a favorite son in the primary against Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy, will almost surely throw most of the votes to Humphrey on the first ballot...
...vote spread itself was hardly overwhelming. In the record turnout of 764,000 Democrats. Kennedy got 42% of the vote; Governor Roger Branigin, who adopted a favorite-son stance as Humphrey's not-so-secret ally, received 31%; McCarthy polled 27%. While Kennedy failed both to roll up a ma jority and to demolish McCarthy, the timing of his first-place finish and his surprisingly broad base of support gave the New Yorker's campaign a solid, if less than meteoric, boost...
...Eleventh Campaigner. Kennedy carried nine of the state's eleven Congressional districts, while Branigin took the other two.* Bobby also captured eleven of the state's twelve largest cities and towns. He won 90% of the Negro vote, yet held his own in many of the white, working-class precincts that gave George Wallace a heavy vote in the 1964 Democratic primary. He turned on the electorate in low-income neighborhoods, where voting is not habitual, to produce solid crowds at the polls. And he succeeded in the face of several handicaps. Indiana is a basically conservative state...
...three generations of kin-Mother Rose, Sisters Eunice, Jean and Pat, Children David, Michael and Courtney. Ethel, who is expecting their eleventh campaigner in January, did her smiling bit. Meticulous planning and arrangements, plus Kennedy's own crowd-catching personality, consistently made for large audiences, while McCarthy and Branigin frequently dissipated their efforts on small groups...
...then there was money. McCarthy staffers occasionally went without their paychecks and sometimes had to exist on $5 a day for expenses. Branigin complained: "You can't beat $2,000,000." Though Kennedy insisted that he had actually spent between $550,000 and $600,000, Rose Kennedy, in an interview with Women's Wear Daily, was cash-candid: "It's our own money, and we're free to spend it any way we please. It's part of this campaign business. If you have money, you spend...