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Overconfidence

"Richard Nixon received less
than the 50 per cent vote that the
Young Republicans were looking
for," he said. "This shows the
overconfidence in their camp that
will manifest itself on November 5,
I hope."

John Moore, faculty
coordinator of the Student-Faculty
coalition for Humphrey-Muskie in
the School of Law said that the
election showed how important it
was for McCarthy supporters to
vote for Mr. Humphrey.

Anson Franklin, executive
secretary of the Young
Republican's, said that he thought
the election was not planned far
enough in advance to insure
adequate publicity and a good
turnout. "If more people had
voted, I'm sure that Mr. Nixon
would have received a much larger
percentage of the votes than he
did."