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Chapter Thirty-Five
"Polls closed in Idaho..."
James Buckley: 51.26%
John Connally: 48.74%
"...Kentucky..."
John Connally: 50.05%
James Buckley: 49.95%
"...and Nevada..."
James Buckley: 56.36%
John Connally: 43.64%
"a few days later, we've reached the last contests, beginning with California..."
James Buckley: 72.94%
John Connally: 27.06%
"...Mississippi..."
John Connally: 76.87%
James Buckley: 23.13%
"...Montana..."
James Buckley: 55.25%
John Connally: 43.75%
"...New Jersey..."
James Buckley: 80.69%
John Connally: 19.31%
"...New Mexico..."
James Buckley: 60.84%
John Connally: 39.16%
"...Ohio..."
James Buckley: 70.77%
John Connally: 29.23%
"...Rhode Island..."
James Buckley: 84.00%
John Connally: 16.00%
"...South Dakota..."
James Buckley: 50.97%
John Connally: 49.03%
"...West Virginia..."
John Connally: 73.06%
James Buckley: 26.94%
"...the Convention is all that is left before the election."
-Walter Cronkite (1980)