After the Senate rejected Judge G. Harrold Carswell for the Supreme Court, Carswell decided to run for the Florida Republican Senate nomination with the motto: "This time the people will decide." Last week they did soresoundingly. They gave 62.7% of the primary vote to Carswell's opponent, Representative William Cramer.
The result was unsurprising because Carswell early in the campaign had made a strategic blunder: he banked on forcing Cramer out of the race because of his own sudden prominence and because of Southern indignation over the Senate's Supreme Court decision. President Nixon as...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
