He plugs away toward Illinois, while Carter surveys his roses
After his first drubbing by Jimmy Carter, in Iowa's Democratic caucuses, Ted Kennedy ordered a speechwriter to draft a statement of withdrawal from the presidential race. But the Senator soon had second thoughts and filed the speech away. Since then he has been beaten three more times—in Maine, Minnesota and, most embarrassingly, in his own backyard of New Hampshire. Yet because he got more New Hampshire votes than Carter did in 1976.* Kennedy thrust out a fist and made a peculiar boast: "Tonight we are claiming victory." And he later added,...
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