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By EUGENE McCARTHY
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The polsters, columnists and other election experts are busy explaining the errors of their predictions as to what would be the outcome of the New Hampshire Primary and of the Maine Caucuses. They were ready to be right when the Vermont returns came in.
The reasons given for the former vice president’s losses are many and cover almost the whole range of factors bearing on political decisions. As Edmund Burke observed in the 18th century, the number of factors that do bear on political decision are infinite and therefore the number of possible decisions is infinite.
The weather in New Hampshire was not good. This condition, some experts say, may have kept older voters who were expected to vote strongly few Mondale away from the poles.
Mondale left the state a day or two before the primary election - an offensive act in the mind of some New Hampshire voters, some poet-elections observers suspect.
“Senator Hart reminded the New Hampshire Democrats of John Kennedy" wa$, the conclusion of others.
Heavier thinkers saw the results as indicating a cultural schism between older citizens and younger ones, the line falling somewhere between 47 and 57, roughly. This line has now been labeled the age slash and may be with us as a factor in American politics, at least through a few more primaries.
Some language experts say that the difference in the campaign was principally one of adjectives. The former Vice President repeatedly said that he was “real”
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