Wednesday, November 3, 1976
Ford

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ar ter:

Deadlock
kota, however, were running in erything he is "to my mother
Ford's favor. He was beating the and father."

Bullard re-elected; other
state races undecided

(Continued from Page 1) he had a list of about 75 names
security of the ballots." as possible appointees to the
There was no immediate ref Cabinet and other top posts.
sponse to the request from At the White House, a spokes-
New York, but if the early pro- person said President Ford vas
jections hold, Carter could win confident he would be the win-
even without the state's votes. ner.
But the outcome of the elec- Ford's campaign manager,
tion hinged on late returns from James Baker III, said at -mid-
majdr states in both the East evening that the President had
and West, where races were to win four states out of five
still extremely close and un-{
settled as of midnight.
Ford was rolling up an early *
lead in California, leading Car-,
ter 53 per cent to 46 per centr
with just five per cent of the
state's precincts counted.}
Pennsylvania a n d Illinois,
where Carter led, and Ohio,y
where Ford was leading, were
other pivotal states, more im-'
portant to the President than to y
Carter. By the account of his
had to carry all three, plus Il-
linois and California, if he was
to gain the national mandate he
had sought for so long.
The states in Carter's victory
column were a roster of the'
South save only Virginia, Ford's
one victory in this region of his
rival.
Carter's biggest single prize
was New York, where Ford had
held a shaky lead in the early
counting. There, the Democrat
captured 41 electoral votes; in
Texas, he won another 26. HeI
won also in Massachusetts, forj
14, and in Florida, for 17. That;
gave him four of the 10 biggest
states where, by the arithmetich
of the electoral college, presi-
dential elections are won or lost.
Of the big 10, Ford had wonr
only in New Jersey.s
He led in California and in
Michigan.
It was close in Ford's homey
state, but he was running strong
outside Detroit and its industrial
environs, where Carter did best. -r
It was close, too, in Illinois ands
Ohio.
Carter had won in his Georgia -
home, in Kentucky, the District
of Columbia, Florida, West Vir- ,*IM ATR i ieR
ginia, Massachusetts, Tennes- IMMY CARTER, his wife R
see Arkansas, Delaware, Ala-; where they awaited voting resi
bama, South Carolina Rhode, edge over President Ford, but
Island, Maryland,. Minnesota,
N o r t h Carolina, Louisiana, big ones - Michigan, Ohio, Il-
Texas and New York. linois, Pennsylvania and Texas-
On the Ford victory list were to wi, the election. He said he
Indigna, Kansas, Connecticut, was asz-ming Ford would win
Nebraska, Idaho, Utah, New Califor> Baker spoke before
Jersey New Hampshire, Colo- Carter captured Texas, and
rado, Wyoming, Arizona, Alas- thus, by his election night analy-
ka, Virginia, Iowa, New Mexico sis, Ford had to sweep the other
and Vermont. states.

labor vote. Ford was gaining 58
per cent of the ballots cast by
college graduates, 67 per cent
of the voters with incomes over
$20,000 a year.
Here are how some of the
state-by-state vote totals were
shaping up:
Ford was holding a wavering
lead over Carter in Virginia, a
pivotal southern state, with a

challenger 52-47 in North Dakota
and 51-49 in the latter. ' Both'
states, however, were consider-
ed too close to place in either
candidate's column.
Carter carried South Carolina
by a 57-43 margin, putting that,
rate back in the Democraticl
column for the first time inI

In Plains, Carter got three
hours' sleep on election eve,
spent five minutes marking his
ballot, andsaidhe'd voted for
"Walter Mondale and his run-
ning mate."
Outside the cinder block poll-
ing place, close by the railroad
tracks, Carter said he was sat-
isfied with the; campaign he
waged. "I did the best I could,"
he said.
Then he went down to his
peanut warehouse to look things
over and inspect the books.
In Afton, Minn., Sen. Walter
Mondale said he had voted "for
Jimmy Carter and his running
mate." He waited in line to
cast his ballot, and said "I'm
so tired I don't know what I'm
doing."
It was Bob Dole in Russell,
Kans., where the Republican
vice presidential nominee reg-
istered his vote. "I just chang-
ed my mind," he joked as he
left his home precinct.
He flew to Washington and
joined Ford at the White House
for the election night wait.
At the end, as so often be-
fore, the campaign between
Ford and Carter was detoured
by a side issue - the refusal
of his Plains Baptist church to
admit to membership a black
minister from another church
in Albany, Ga. The Rev. Clen-
non King's application for mem-
bership was rejected by vote
of the church deacons, last Sun-
day's services were canceled,
and King was turned away
when he arrived with reporters.
Carter said Monday that he
disagreed with the action of the
deacons, but would not resign
from the church. He also said
the incident might have been
"partially, at least, politically
motivated."

(Continued from Page 1)
lead.
The all pointed to the Uni-
versity's finances as the major
issue of the campaign. Each
has posed plans to help the;
University obtain additional
funding, most likely from thel
federal government.
ONE OF THE most important
of the state races, the contest
for three seats on the State
Supreme Court, was also unde-
cided as of press time.
There are three seats, an'
eight-year term being sought by
incumbent Thomas G. Kava-
nagh, Democrat Roman Gribbs,
Libertarian Wilson Hurd, Re-
publican Joseph Swallow and
American Independent James
Wells; a six-yearterm contest
between Republican incumbent
Lawrence Lindemer, Human
Rights Party candidate Zolton
Ferency, and Democrat Blair
Moody; and a two-year term
sought by Republican James
Ryan and Democrat Charles
Kaufman.
With two per cent of the votes
recorded in the eight-year race
Kavanagh had 30,189 to Gribb's
17,149 (no results for other can-
didates); for the six-year race
Moody lead Lindemer 23,827 to

19,496 (no results for Ferency)
and in the two-year Ryan lead
Kaufman 28,501 to 16,716.
ALTHOUGH THE race is sup-'
posed to be non-partisan, can-
didates must be nominated by
a political party, except for in-
cumbents who can nominate'
themselves.
The Democrats, at their State
Convention in August rejected
bids by Ferency and Kavanagh'
for nomination for the two- and
eight-year terms respectively,
apparently for their failure to
follow the Democratic Party
line.:
Ferency has angered many
Democrats over the years for'
his radical political positions
and for bolting the party to run
for Governor on the HRP ticket
two years ago.
KAVANAGH, an incumbentj
justice, voted against the Demo-
cratic majority on the court on
a reapportionment plan which
was promoted by the Demo-
crats - losing their favor and
re-nomination as well.
In place of these two the Dem-
ocrats nominated Kaufman and
Gribbs respectively. Gribbs is
a former mayor of Detroit,

while Kaufman is a 12-year vet-
eran of the Wayne county Cir-
cuit court.
Upon being denied nomina-
tion by the Democrats, Kava-
nagh nominated himself and
Ferency accepted the HRP nom-
ination for the six-year term.
Ferency is running against
Moody who describes himself as
"a shade left of center on most
matters but on human rights
a "liberal." The other candidate,
Lindemer was appointed to the
court in 1975 is a former Uni-
versity Regent and a conserva-
tive.
Kaufman's opponents, for the
two-year term, Ryan, a moder-
ate who was also appointed last
year.
Swallow, a circuit court judge,
charged the court with "gen-
erating a disrespect to law" by
overturning lower court rulings
on technicalities. The two candi-
dates nominated by minor par-
ties, Wells and Hurd, both ad-
mitted from the start that they
had little chance of winning.
Their campaigns were almost
invisible and it took Hurd's par-
ty headquarters a month to dis-
cover he had even been nom-
inated.


Pos till defeated by Minick

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AP Photo
salynn and their daughter Amy arrive in Atlanta yesterday
ults. With over half of the count reported, Carter had a slight
the race was st ill too close to call.

10 000-vote margin, after 90 perI
cent of the returns were in.
In New Hampshire, the Presi-
dent inched ahead of Carter by
a 52-47 per cent margin, after a
third of the state's precincts hadI
been counted.

16 years. He piled up a 70,000
vote edge over Ford with 63
per cent of the precincts count-
ed.
Ford voted in an elementary
school in his old Michigan con-

Black supporters, among them
Coretta Scott King and Mayor
Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind.,
cameto Carter's defense, some
suggesting Republican involve-
ment in what they called a sus-
picious incident.
A group supporting Fordbsent
Stelegrams to some 375 black
ministers questioning whether
Carter could deal with Congress
if he cannot influence his own
church.
Martin Dinkins, director of
Negro activities for an organiza-
tion called the People for Ford
Committee, said his group'had
sent the telegram.
A Carter aide called. it low
politics. A President Ford Com-
mitte spokesman said the tele-
gram was "in terrible taste and
if we had known about it, we
would have stopped it."

(Continued from Page 1) ;
Postill also leveled a series
of attacks on The Teamsters
Union - of which Minick is
a member - indicating that
the union has links with organ-
ized crime.. The President of
Teamsters Local 214 last month
filed a lawsuit against the sher-
iff for his statements, and the
publicity of both incidents ap-
pears to have fractured Postill's
cause.
Minick chided Postill for pub-
licly saying that his law en-
forcement agency has been the
most effective and most eco-
nomically run of nits kind in the
country.
"PEOPLE SEE those kinds of
statements and they know it's
pot like that," said Minick.
"Postill is trying to ,play a num-
bers game and I think it killed
him."
With 64 of 181 precincts re-
porting at press time, Minick
led Postill 21,667 to 14,245
Incumbent Democrats Cath-
erine McClary and Kathleen
Fojtik retained their seats for
county commissioners in the
14th and 15th districts with re-
sounding victories over their
two closest opponents. With 64
precincts reporting, Fojtik held
a convincing 1,334 to 357 lead
over Republican Robert Jones
while McClary led Republican
Robert Brandenbury 1,691 to
439.
In a non-partisan judgeship
race, Henry Conlin appeardd to
have defeated Burgoyne for the
22nd Circuit's newly created
Fifth Court seat. Burgoyne had
come under attack by the Wash-
tenaw County Bar Association
in recent years with charges
that she is "non-qualified" to
be judge.

Voters also appeared to have
rejected two county ballot pro-
posals for increased taxes for
repairs- on roads, bridges and
county buildings.
Two other proposals, which
increased taxes for acquiring

and maintaining county parks
and extending the.county boun-
daries to include Milan, receiv-
ed the mandate of the voters.
The parks proposal had been
narrowly defeated in last sum-
mer's primary election.

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Alabama, predictably, gave gressional district, then flew
Carter a good margin of Victory, b k Wl-t ,.hi.A n ii the

Democratic National Chair-
mant Robert Strauss said the
pattern looked like a Carter
victory to him. Carter flew to
Atlanta, planning a victory rally,
his speech of\triumph already
drafted. He talked of plans for
the transition to a new Demo-
cratic administration, and saidj

i..CILlC S~L I~l,11v I.I, i aCK to asnington ana t e
An Associated Press survey of winning with more than 100,000 i
voters taken otside 100 pollirfg votes after 65 per cent of the White House after an emotional
places across the nation showed ; votes had been tabulated. farewell to Grand Rapids.
Ford and Carter drawing on the At the unveiling of an airport
. . l\Iississippi was, too close to
traditional bases of Republican j call, but Carter was leading the mural depicting his career,
and Democratic support. Carter southern state by a 51-48 per Ford wept, and in a cracking,
was taking 85 per cent of the cent margin. campaign-hoarsened voice, told
black' vote, 59 per cent of the North Dakota and South Da-, his neighbors that he owes ev-

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Pierce, se.ll: Stay tuned

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defense budget.

"It's very, very close. This
thing may have toy be decided
over the absentee ballots."

"I THOUGHT my opponent , f
did not really discuss the real STILL WATING for approxi-
issues," Pierce complained last mately half of the Washtenaw
night. "I was disappointed with County returns to come in, ac-
the general tone of the cam- cording to Pursell camp esti-
paign. I think he knew I was mates, the Republican held a
ahead and I think he was just narrow lead of 3,000 votes over
criticizing me without putting Pierce's 59,000 in the dis ict.
forward his stance on the is- Bill Kerans, Pursell's ews
sues." I secretary, said, "we're waiting
Late last night, a spokesman for most of the city of Ann
at Pierce's headquarters pre- Arbor. The race may not, be
dicted that the race was so decided until tomorrow morn-'
close "Whoever wins will take ing."
it with a margin of less than Pursell continued his optim-
1,000 votes."
Echoing the Democratic sen-st talk, buoying the spirits
timents, Bob Weber, Pursell's of his supporters. "It looks aw-
administrative assistant, said: fully good. CBS projected us

as the winners.
"I represent a balance. I'm
strong on education, environ-
mental issues and also strong
on fiscal affairs."
ASKED HOW it feels to be
at the pinnacle yet not really
knowing which way it will go,
Pursell replied, "I've been there
before, not really knowing, but
I'm confident. The first order
of business, if I get in, is to
get myself on the Labor and Ed-
ucation Committee."
Meanwhile, at Pierce head-
quarters, the doctor-turned-pol-
itician dismissed suggestions
that he was running on Car-
ter's coat tails, saying, "Well,
I'm running ahead of Carter.
I hope he'll.:do better, though."

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Daily Photo by BRAD BENJAMIN
Pursel l
A HOPEFUL CARL PURSELL awaits the final election re-
turns at Republican headquarters last night. The Congres-
sional race was at a deadlockk as votes continued to be
counted late into the night.
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