Word: antiwar
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While speakers in Miami repeatedly stressed that the Democratic Convention, because of the "McGovern rules," was the first that was truly representative of Democratic voters, much of the public got another impression. The party seemed to be largely composed of antiwar radicals, militant women, blacks and eccentric youths. For the first time in 40 years, white Southerners, ethnics, many Jews and older voters could not identify with the Democratic Party leadership...
Spaulding, who run unsuccessfully as the Mass. Republican senatorial candidate in 1970, denied Saturday having any influence with the Nixon Administration. He cited as evidence his financial support of Senator George McGovern's presidential campaign and his affiliation with the Greater Boston Peace Action Coalition, an antiwar group...
John Kerry, national superstar of the antiwar movement, was supposed to win it all in the Fifth. He has all the ingredients needed in a successful candidate. He is young, rich aggressive ruggedly handsome, personable, and a Democrat, Especially a Democrat. On voter registration polls the Massachusetts Fifth District is two-to-one Democratic and it includes traditional Democratic strongholds in the urban areas of Lowell and Lawrence...
...combination of elements that but by bit eroded Kerry's popular support of the early campaign particularly affected the Kerry showing in the suburbs, where he had expected to take a commanding majority. Kerry won only one town in the entire district--Lexington, which has a long tradition of antiwar sentiment. The rest of the suburbs went to Cronin by narrow margins, except his home town of Andover, where he won resoundingly, 8179-1929 Cronin's Andover victory put him into the lead to stay as the election night count came...
...District, where favored antiwar John Kerry lost to moderate Republican Paul W. Cronin, and the 12th, where Republican William Weeks '49 was edged by Democratic Gerry Studds, the losers were particularly unhappy...