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Mount Pleasant, S. C.--The usual insurgent candidate's strategy, which has not actually worked in 20 years in the GOP, is to score upsets in Iowa and New Hampshire.
If it rains in Northern California, Republicans Matt Fong and Dan Lungren could win upsets.
The idea is simple: Given "the end of racism," or at least the end of "irrational" discrimination, minority bellyaching only upsets what would otherwise be the proper social equilibrium.
At every point, Smiley upsets the usual expectations.
There is much crowing about the resurgence of the Democratic Party in the South, given Fritz Hollings' Senate victory, gubernatorial upsets in South Carolina and Alabama, and a probable gubernatorial win in Georgia.