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urging people to seek election as uncommitted delegates. All this could do for citizens voting for delegates would be to award them to the governor for his disposal at his pleasure. One does not have to be less than an admirer of the governor (as I am one in many ways) to wonder how such an approach to presidential candidate selection is advanced to the public’s benefit. Had everyone dutifully filed as Uncommitted in Virginia, we would in effect have been returning to the Unit Rule.
I've been to a National Convention and I’ve experienced the way a delegation is cowed by the supine before its leader. We may not yet have figured out an intelligent method to choose a presidential candidate, but I know that consigning the choice to governors isn’t a good one.
And, according to Mr. Bowles, 1972 also was calamitous? Not so, and for much the same reasons. We had a youthful, dedicated and representative group of delegates, many of whom became active in the party for more or less the first time after that. If it hadn’t been for 1968 and 1972, probably 75 percent of active Democrats in the state would be at least my age, 62, and more. Goodness knows, we don’t need that.
No, we need things to happen to rattle up the coals in Virginia. When my mother came to this state 67 years ago, people said to her such things as this, when she remarked with surprise that school in the community where she lived kept only six weeks in the year. “I’m not bothered. Pa can’t read
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