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...several of the light-voting student precincts near Boston University and Northeastern, WBCN disc jockey Duane I. Glassock, running a write-in campaign as a joke to promote his radio show, may challenge the state senator for second place...
...other business, the assembly last night passed a by-law spelling out procedures for electing representatives. The new by-law will not allow preferential voting, but it will permit write-in voting...
...Kennedy were declared a candidate in New Hampshire's primary, he could win 65 per cent of the vote, compared to 20 per cent for Carter, a Boston Globe poll showed. If Kennedy were only a write-in candidate, he would still receive 58 per cent of the vote, compared to 28 per cent for Carter and 11 per cent for California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., the survey showed...
Jimmy Carter's campaign strategists live with at least one recurring nightmare: the President gets clobbered by a write-in vote for Edward Kennedy in New Hampshire's opening Democratic primary next Feb. 26, and then on the following Tuesday, March 4, he loses badly in Massachusetts to some popular Bay State Democrat serving as a stand-in for Kennedy. Since such a pair of defeats is no way to start a re-election campaign, the Carter forces have fought desperately to persuade Democratic Party officials in Massachusetts to delay their primary until April...
...will not be dissuaded even if Kennedy strongly vows his unavailability. Says she: "This is a draft movement, and the nature of a draft is to persuade a reluctant candidate he must run." Polls in the Granite State show that if the Senator does enter, even as a write-in, he would easily defeat the President...