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Primaries Set Tough Test for Demo Hopefuls
Congressional Quarterly outlines a crowded path to the Democratic nomination with Sen. Edmund Muskie as front runner. New Hampshire on March 7 begins a sequence of seven early primaries facing rivals Humphrey McGovern Hartke Yorty Lindsay and McCarthy as Nixon pursues renomination through a smoother Republican contest.
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Congressional Quarterly
Washington
White House
New Hampshire
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Muskie
Florida
Illinois
Wisconsin
Rhode Island
Masachusetts
Pennsylvania
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
George McGovern
South Dakota
Henry M. Jackson
Vance Hartke
Indiana
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Sam Yorty
Los Angeles
John V. Lindsay
New York
Eugene J. McCarthy
Shirley Chisholm
Nixon
Rep
Paul N. McCloskey
California
Cp. John M. Ashbrook
Ohio
McCloskey
Ashbrook
District of Columbia
Tennessee
North Carolina
Nebraska
West Virginia
Maryland
Oregon
New Jersey
New Mexico
Arkansas
McGovern
Yorty
Hartke
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Wallace
Humphrey