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...safely far away from Southern California, heretofore obscure extremist candidates captured their party nominations for high office. These results, however, do not wholly substantiate the belief that the Goldwater nomination over two years ago was more than a political accident. Rather there is evidence suggesting that the white backlash has become a potent political factor in some areas, that many of those who voted for the President in 1964 have become disillusioned with his policies and their backers, and that right-wing candidates sometimes have inherent political advantages over their liberal or moderate opponents...
...chances are that Mahoney will be defeated in November by Republican moderate Spiro Agnew since large numbers of Democrats will not support a "backlash" candidate. But in New Hampshire, retired Air Force General Harrison Thyng, the most patent right-winger of the lot, has a good chance to capture the seat held by New Hampshire's first Democratic Senator in decades, Thomas MacIntyre. Thyng, who quit the Air Force to run in the Republican primary at the behest of right-wing publisher William Loeb, scored a narrow victory over divided moderate opposition, state party chairman William Johnson and ex-governor...
...pragmatist whose political strength is based largely in the city, where he has mounted a brilliant if bloodless attack on urban renewal problems. Collins, a polio victim who is usually confined to a wheelchair, relied extensively on well-delivered television oratory and made an attempt to attract white-backlash votes by pointedly rejecting "civil disobedience as a means of attaining democratic objectives." Chub Peabody tirelessly stumped the state, chopping away at Collins' "public-be-damned" redevelopment program and recounting his own liberal record as Governor. Responding sympathetically to Peabody's image of ingenuous honesty, the voters gave...
George Mahoney had 146,152 votes, Sickles 145,118 and Finan 133,149; a ragged field of five other candidates had 62,000 among them. If Mahoney wins, it would have to be called a startling upset, but it would by no means be the "backlash victory" that much of the daily press instantly called it. The fact was, Mahoney attracted a bare 31% of all votes cast; his two major opponents, both of whom came out strongly in favor of antidiscriminatory housing laws, pulled nearly twice that much...
Aided by such tactics, Bobby Kennedy may be firmly set upon what one Administration official calls "a paved road to the presidency." If he establishes an acceptable legislative record in the Senate, if he avoids a backlash of enmity from Lyndon Johnson's supporters within his party, if his popularity proves more than ephemeral, then the impetus that Bobby describes as "this thing" could well carry him all the way along the paved road. This all adds up to a lot of "ifs," and Bobby is reluctant to dwell on them...