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...committee meeting was largely a gathering of old pros, contrasting with the more youthful convention in Miami Beach. It gave Tom Eagleton such an enthusiastic reception that he looked like a winner rather than a man bumped from the ticket because of his past mental-depression treatments. Yet there was an almost solid show of unity behind Shriver on the committee roll call. He got all of the 3,016 votes except Missouri's 73, which went sympathetically to Eagleton, and four in Oregon that went to former Senator Wayne Morse, who is seeking a comeback there this year...
...expert on the electorate: "The best thing that George McGovern has going for him is that he ain't Richard Nixon. He had better stick with that." But there are mystifying crosscurrents moving at this stage of the campaign. Even as a Harris poll was showing that the Eagleton affair had sent McGovern to a miserable 34% rating behind Nixon's 57% in voter preference, a Gallup poll disclosed that 53% of Americans believe that the Democratic Party can handle the problems that most concern them better than the Republicans. The reverse was true when Humphrey began...
McGovern showed a "terrible weakness" in dismissing Eagleton because "he was afraid that it would color his candidacy," contends Mrs. Laurell...
...Eagleton affair has severely but perhaps only temporarily hurt the presidential candidacy of George McGovern, at least in the minds of the TIME Citizens' Panel. In another of a series of surveys conducted for TIME by Daniel Yankelovich, Inc., the panel was interviewed after the Missouri Senator's past mental treatments had been revealed and McGovern had asked him to resign from the vice-presidential race. The panel consisted of 302 citizens chosen randomly from a scientifically selected cross section of more than 2,500 voting-age Americans. Some of the findings...
MORE than half of the voters questioned, including both Republicans and Democrats, thought less of McGovern because of the Eagleton debacle. The reasons, however, were mixed. Of the panelists expressing an opinion on the matter, four out of ten thought McGovern should have investigated Eagleton more carefully in the first place; one-third were critical of McGovern's decision to drop him; one-fourth thought he displayed indecisiveness in handling the matter. Only one out of ten Democratic voters thought McGovern had emerged from the affair with a stronger candidacy than before...