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By EUGENE McCARTHY
Rappahannock Special
News Writer
Presidential straw votes are being taken. Polsters, both amateur and professional, are polling. Political experts, real and pseudo (the differences are hard to define) are commenting, predicting, and second guessing, impartially, both other experts and themselves. Endorsements are being sought and given.
But all of these are but preliminaries to the New Hampshire primary which is scheduled to be held early in 1984. Just how early is still subject to dispute, possibly to settlement in a controversy between the Democratic National Committee and the state of New Hampshire. The party wants to push the date farther back into 1984. New Hampshire insists on not only being early, but in having a decent distance between its primary and the next one, and has gone so far as to defy the National party by saying at one point that no matter what date is set for primaries, New Hampshire will hold its primary earlier, possibly even in late 1983. Most of the Democratic candidates are siding w:ith New7 Hampshire against the National Committee, saying that what New Hampshire wants is what they want. «
This respect for the New Hampshire primary and concern over it is a little puzzling. The nation on the record does not go as goes the New Hampshire primary.
The New Hampshire primary is a high risk venture. More candidates lose in it than win. This year, if all the Democratic candidates nowin the field go to New Hampshire for the primary test, six out of seven will certainly not win! '
Winning is not all, however, in the N. H. primary. A candidate can win the primary and be declared the loser. Or he can lose or run behind another candidate and be declared the winner.
A candidate can go into the winter of the N. H. pri
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