Word: bandwagoners
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...personality and tactic. The U.S. had little known or cared about the boyish, tousle-haired Massachusetts Senator until he erupted on his primary campaign last year. With detached fascination they watched him lift the nomination out of the hands of seasoned pros, felt the incredible force of his bandwagon organization as it coursed over the U.S. Over the months he etched the image of a driving personality, the peculiar quality of his hasty rhetoric that seemed to magnetize though it lacked warmth. Unsmiling for the most part, awkward in gesture, undramatic in tone, he hammered again and again at basically...
...were not hard-pressed but were beginning to wonder if they might be. By his own oomph-no less than by virtue of smooth organization in a traditionally Democratic city-he turned a visit to Manhattan into a mammoth, impassioned Democratic declaration of confidence. It reverberated along the Kennedy bandwagon tracks through the whole nation...
Huge crowds and deafening ovations, and particularly the strong, unequivocally political speech by Ike in Philadelphia, gave the Nixon camp fresh buoyancy, just when it seemed to be in some despair over the Kennedy bandwagon talk. The Nixon camp also set great store by the promised triumphal parade of Ike, Nixon and Lodge through New York City this week, and hopefully proclaimed that Kennedy had "peaked" too soon...
...contrast, Kennedy's style is unexcited. As the campaign pressure presumably builds up, the Senator is simply becoming more sure of him self, more confident about ridiculing his opponent. Part of this style is conscious, an effort to use a bandwagon psychology. But part is Kennedy's own self-assurance, born of wealth and social advantage, a Harvard education and a rigorous family tradition...
...victory that follows the Senator's motorcade. Surely the newsmen covering the candidate are nearly unanimous in predicting--and hoping for--his election. Nearly all the reports coming from the Kennedy press contingent have been wildly enthusiastic about the success of his campaign--an enthusiasm that adds to the bandwagon effect. But this prediction of victory is not fully justified simply on the basis of what the reporters they observe. It is difficult to have a balanced view when covering just one of the candidates--watching only his crowds, hearing his definition of the issues, his selection of the facts...