Political science professor says Sen. McGovern ‘doesn’t stand a chance’ in November election
George McGovern, Democratic Party presidential nominee, “doesn’t stand a chance” of winning the election because he “does not represent the center of his party,” said Totton Anderson, professor of political science.
In a dinner address to a suburban newspaper publishers seminar last week, Anderson said McGovern has been trying to pull the party together, but he’s in trouble with the electorate because of his views.
"Voting blocs the Democrats could normally count on for support are falling away from McGovern.” said Anderson. The Republicans are going after the entire South for the first time in history, and they have been successfully courting senior citizens on the issues of food, trans-^ portation and health care
AFL-CIO President George Meany refused to give McGovern labor’s endorsement because the senator opposed the S-l, Trident and defense spending, and "particularly because McGovern was unsympathetic toward eliminating the ‘right to work’ clause from the Taft-Hartley Act,” Anderson said.
Nixon's vulnerabilities
In addition, McGovern has been unable to exploit President Nixon’s vulnerabilities on the economy (inflation), foreign policy(Nixon’s switch on China) and corruption in the Republican Party and the administration (the Watergate affair and the wheat scandal).
The only one who can beat Nixon is Nixon himself. Anderson believes, and Republican tacticians are carefully guarding against
that possibility. They’re keeping the President isolated, presenting an image of “the statesman at work,” and using a system of surrogates—cabinet members and other administration o ffic ia 1 s—to	answer
McGovern.
They are handling the media very carefully, and they have neutralized Vice-President Agnew — “he’s more congenial now.” says Anderson.
A few political observers still believe that Democrats will vote for McGovern out of party loyalty, and that because his is numerically the majority party his victory is guaranteed. Anderson disagrees. "Most political scientists expect a tremendous amount of ticket-splitting, particularly in the Democratic Party.” he said.
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vol. Ixv no. 20	los angeles, California	tuesday, october 17, 1972
CROWD PLEASED, PRESS BORED
McGovern gets cheers
Dentistry committee to report tomorrow
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Hubbard, in a statement issued Oct. 10, said, “The purpose of the Special Dental Advisory Committee is to
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evaluate the problems and relationships between the dental professions and the USC School of Dentistry and to make recommendations to the benefit of both.”
“I hope the committee’s report will be an aid in improving the relationships between the School and its constituents,” he said.
Hubbard issued the statement to clear up what he called a misunderstanding about the committee and its role.
Hubbard said he and John Ingle, dean of the School of Dentistry, “agreed that an impartial, broadly-based advisory committee be formed to identify problem areas, to evaluate them and to make recommendations on how the relationships might be improved.”
Extensive research
The committee, he said, has done extensive research into every area of the dental controversy, including “everything that had been heard or read, real or imagined, about the school and the people in it.” Hubbard said.
But regardless of the findings, Hubbard said the university will not be pressured by outside groups.
"USC will continue to make its own academic decisions and will not be coerced, dictated to or yield to any pressure groups." he stressed.
- I will continue to maintain the complete academic integrity of the University of Southern California.” Hubbard said.
By Peter Wong
associate editor
The crowd loved it but the press was bored.
That was the reaction to Sen. George McGovern’s reti.arks at a rally Saturday night in the Sports Arena, one that was part carnival and part revival meeting.
For the 17,000 supporters of the Democratic presidential nominee, McGovern’s assaults on President Nixon’s record were just what they wanted to hear.
Restatement of positions
For the 75 or so reporters from both the local press and the national press traveling with the South Dakota senator, however, McGovern’s commenis were simply a restatement of his posi-
tions on the Vietnam war, the economy and Nixon’s credibility.
In fact, the reporters traveling with McGovern heard the senator deliver similar talks twice before in California in the same day—Friday night at the Cow Palace outside San Francisco, and Saturday afternoon at Balboa Park in San Diego.
But the crowd showed none of the boredom that the reporters did during McGovern’s remarks.
McGovern appeared on the speaker’s platform amid a shower of ballons and confetti, the sounds of a brass band and the roar of the crowd. “This reception makes me feel as if I had already been elected President,” he said.
Critical of Nixon
He then criticized the quality
of moral leadership the Nixon administration has provided the nation.
“Let us say to the wiretappers, the war-makers, and the special interests, give us back our country!’ ” he said. This comment echoed the remark at the convention of Assemblyman Willie Brown (D-San Francisco), a cochairman of the California delegation: “Give me back my delegation!”
McGovern criticized the continued U.S. bombing of Southeast Asia, President Nixon’s handling of the national economy and what McGovern called Nixon’s favoritism toward corporations, and the attempted bugging of Democratic Party offices in Washington, D.C.
AN EARLY CELEBRATION?—Still wearing some of the confetti that greeted his arrival, Sen. George McGovern said he felt like he had already been elected when he spoke at a rally of enthusiastic supporters (right) at the Sports Arena Saturday night. DT photos by Danny Alaimo and Tim Novoselski.