Horowitz said that a McGovern victory would, however, provide an indirect domestic boon to the left. "It's always better for the left to have a liberal in," he explained. "The atmosphere gets very good for organizing."

Horowitz said a Nixon victory would be "pretty demoralizing" but that he did not "foresee any great move toward repression." He said a second term Nixon would benevolently expand trade and try to achieve economic prosperity. "However, the minorities will be cut out," he said. "The race question is underestimated and it may still explode."

Staughton Lynd '50, noted author and organizer, yesterday echoed Horowitz's assessment of the reason the McGovern campaign is faltering. "McGovern's big mistake is that he does not take a few issues and talk about them at length like George Wallace did," he said. "He comes across to working people as someone who has long complicated proposals he keeps changing."

Lynd termed the McGovern candidacy "a belated political expression of the movement of the sixties--blacks, women and youth."

"The success and failures of the McGovern candidacy underline which groups the movement has reached and which groups it still has to work with." Lynd explained. "If the organizing efforts of the seventies succeed, maybe ten years from now we will have a McGovern that can reach these groups."

Carl Oglesby, a past president of SDS, said yesterday he has supported McGovern for some time. "He will end the war," Oglesby said.

Oglesby said McGovern was doing much better until the California primary when "the Kennedys adopted him." "McGovern does better when he returns to the mood of the first part of his campaign," he said. "He should continue to raise people's hair by saying he would go to Hanoi and beg for the prisoners."