Carter assured, Ford has edge
NZPA New York. A nation-wide survey shows that Mr Jimmy Carter now has 20 more than the 1505 national convention delegates he needed to win the Democratic Presidential nomination on the first ballot. Mr Carter has passed the mark in United Press International's poll of delegates, which puts the former Georgia Governor's total at 1525. and that does not include hundreds of potential supporters in states where party leaders are preparing to board the Carter bandwaggon. Mr Carter’s decisive lead came in on the counting of new supporters in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The candidate himself, confident of victory, was holidaymaking on Sea Island, Georgia. President Ford has passed the 1000-delegate mark in his quest for the 1130 needed for the Republican nomination. The U.PJ. count 'bowed Mr Ford with 1009 delegates, and Mr Ronald Reagan with 893. There are 98 uncommitted delegates and 258 still to be chosen. Mr Ford and Mr Reagan
will be in Des Moines this week-end, trying to line up delegates at the lowa convention. Republican delegates also are being chosen this week-end in Delaware and Washington State. The Democrats have made certain that their 1976 platform will not be a copy of the long and Left-leaning statement of principles that helped doom them four years ago. The platform committee of 153 members bloomed with good will and finished last night — a day before they were due to — drafting the platform that will be presented to the national convention next month. It contains just about everything Mr Carter wanted, and not much more. Party rules make it highly unlikely that there will be minority reports or other challenges to the platform at the convention. The ideological brawling that has become a trademark of the Democratic Party for years was suppressed for two reasons: Mr Carter’s control over the proceedings, and the committee members’ own desire to subordinate their preferences to the larger goal of winning the White House.
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