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Show Majority Of One The Mock Exodus1 Two down and none to go. That is the stage with the 1968 Mock ventions. With Saturday's ordeal a great number of inferences drawn from 'the two conventions. The differences between the two re-' parties throughout the nation. ; i The candidates involved give a full indication of what I mean, n Democrats had a battle in their April convention between the tw0 st- ' warts of liberalism Kennedy and McCarthy. Even the candidae ! Humphrey could be considered part of the liberal cause. The Demo' both on and off campus are faced primarily with differences in -rather than ideology. At Odds The Republicans expressed just the reverse position by their acti J at their convention. The choices: Reagan, Nixon and Rockefeller seeir to represent opposite views. Kent Koski, president of the College Re licans on campus, said, perhaps in jest, that Rockefeller was a Demo'c,t campaigning underneath a Republican flag. Reagan forces fought a warlike furvor to defeat the New York liberal. Following the nicfe for acclamation there were sufficient nays to show the seeming disco",- The Democratic convention differed only slightly because it took tv ballots and a speech from McCarthy's campaign manager before p. Demos came around. The difference was there, despite a major memi of the Reagan machine asking the delegates to respect the wishes of it convention. Even with this some of the conservatives chose to disrega: their group head through loud and vocal nays after his motion. With Great Concern The ferocity of the Republican convention was greater thantha;: the Democratic. While there was little major response to the Democrat convention downtown, the Republicans seemed overly concerned. . the -ocratic keynoter told his audience they had very little say -wha.. js going on, the Republicans kept constant vigil on the Rev;:, lican proceedings. ' i The concern it would appear wasn't over the decision of the deleqv. influencing Utah politics, rather hope that the Mock Convention ej'-go ej'-go along with what would happen. The concern of the downtown licans is something that one would want, one would only hope that it'' opinion that they desire rather than reinforcement. One major campaign worker used the argument that the Republicans on campus have never really picked the winner. This to me seems oilv further cause to listen to what is said on campus. Perhaps, the problems of '64 would have been less likely to have happened if people would have listened. Want To Buy a Vote? The intensity of the conventions didn't stop just there. Promse. were made to name delegates for their votes Saturday in exchange U votes next year in the ASUU elections. (Naturally seniors were therk fore powerless to sway votes.) Deals along the same line may havet' place in the Democratic convention, but if they were they were ess ovexV The success of the conventions is clear. To many that didn't knov the works of politics it gave them an education. Some it shocked and t others it seemed to encourage. The success of ttve convention was tha it was lifelike : the ability of a Bob Sykes to push a candidate from m to no where to a position where the candiate might push out the apparel winner ; the willingness of a Bill Stoddard to make a political deal wit the Percy people to push his candidate on top; or even the unwillingne; of a Roger Day or Laury Hammel to sacrifice a full and complete victor demonstrate this. Yes, Virginia there is a Mock Convention. And yes, Virginia, the: ! is such a thing as politics. And finally, Virginia, you can expect qur. a good time four years from now when you come to the Mock Conventioi |