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Baker’s Portland straw vote shows risk of early polls
AP Special Correspondent Walter R. Mears reports that Senator Howard Baker Jr. misread Maine as pivotal when he hoped to win the Republican presidential straw poll in Portland. George Bush won, though the contest yielded no delegates, and Baker spent days explaining the defeat while noting he beat Reagan and Connally in total votes.
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