Who's for Whom

P: Pennsylvania Republicans, voting in the state's popularity contest presidential primary, gave Vice President Richard Nixon a whopping 949,000 votes: the total will probably top President Eisenhower's 1956 primary record (952,000) when the slow tally is finished. Nixon was the only candidate with his name printed on the ballot but did not campaign in the state.

P: Pennsylvania Democrats gave Jack Kennedy a handsome 173,000 write-in votes, three times the combined totals of all other candidates. But Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor David Lawrence, a Roman Catholic who doubts Co-Religionist Kennedy's chances, pooh-poohed the performance, kept a tight rein on the state's 81 convention votes.

P: In Massachusetts' listless primary, only 6% of the electorate trickled to the polls to give Native Son Kennedy the state's 41 Democratic convention votes. Nixon easily nailed down 38 G.O.P. votes.

P: Teen-agers in 50 states, voting on a presidential ballot circulated by Wesleyan University's three school publications, picked Nixon (441,900) over Kennedy (324,065). Overall, the Democrats (Kennedy, Stevenson, Johnson, Humphrey and Symington) won 515,466 votes against Nixon. Wesleyan's 1956 classroom poll of nonvoters came within 1.3% of predicting the proportion of the popular vote given Eisenhower.

P: Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams, Kennedy-leaning favorite son of his state's 51-vote Democratic delegation, predicted Michigan would go heavily next November for any Democrat except Lyndon Johnson. Johnson, said Williams, "might" carry Michigan, but the party "stands for a more liberal and progressive policy than he represents." A Detroit News poll gave Kennedy more votes than all other Democrats combined (63%), put Stevenson second.

P: Anxious to stop Kennedy, Arizona's Symington backers joined forces with Johnson men, sought to gain control of the state's 17-vote delegation and send it to Los Angeles uninstructed and ready, under the unit rule, for a possible swing to Symington. But in a day-long fight at the state convention. Kennedy backers, led by Congressman Stewart Udall, won nine votes, enough to rule the delegation for at least the first ballot. P: Oklahoma's stormy Democratic convention unseated Kennedy-suoporting Governor J. Howard Edmondson. 34, as a national-convention delegate, steamrollered on to choose a 29-vote delegation bound to Lyndon Johnson by unit rule and prepared to settle for Symington. Edmondson, loser in an intraparty fight last February with State Chairman Gene McGill, barely got back his convention seat at week's end as delegate-at-large.

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