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VOL. LXVII, NO. 58 Univer*?'y of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1976
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By Stephen J. Valk
Kditor-in-Chief
NEW YORK?As Hubert Humphrey
acknowledged the fact that he was competing
with the All-star game for primetime
television audiences, he should have
been thankful the game was not being
played in New York.
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National Convention Tuesday night
seemed to syml>olize the spirit and enthusiasm
of the attendants?half-empty.
As NBC's Tom Petit commented, while the
delegates were filing out of Madison
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Square Gardens at the end of the evening, (
"For all we know, it might have been pre- ]
recorded." , !
It was evident before the opening of the
convention that the Carter forces were i
firmly in control, that there would be no
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prevailing attitude was one of "Don't rock j
the boat," a feeling that is the result of a
party suffering from an extreme case of I
executive blue-balls. i
The Democrats have been out 4>f the *
White House for eight years, and it is the
smell of victory in November that has been
able to unify such diverse personalities as <
um^h
Cieorge Wallace and Barbara Jordan,
Kichard Daley and George McGovern, and
Scoop Jackson and Moe Udali.
"There is harmony drifting from the
rafters," Udall said at a press conference
ruesday afternoon. "You have unity, but
you may not have much enthusiasm," he
added.
As I sat on the blue-carpeted convention
floor watching the delegates drift in for the
convention's opening Monday evening, I
was overcome by a feeling of futility. It
was the same saddened feeling I experienced
almost four years ago on
election night '72 when an overwhelming
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majority ot Americans said they wanted
"four more years."
It wasn't that I disliked Jimmy Carter,
but there was something very threatening
about the controlled atmosphere of the
convention. People weren't talking about
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putting on a show for the television
audience. Like the followers of the Rev.
Sun Myung Moon, they had all been
"saved" by Jimmy. And like the Moonies,
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leader was or where he was taking them,
but wherever it was, it had to be better
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