Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...post-Wilson era, the Senators slowly discovered that despite the loss of their secure base in the state legislatures, they still had a political base that was independent of the President. A Committee of the Republican Senate all but destroyed the Harding Cabinet with a relatively new weapon-the congressional investigation. The real confirmation of senatorial rights came in the struggle with Franklin Roosevelt over his plan to pack the Supreme Court with a liberal majority that would okay his New Deal measures. Despite Roosevelt's overwhelming popularity, despite his highly organized liaison with the congressional leadership, despite...
Kennedy's vote base should give him solid leads in primaries north of the Potomac and the Ohio and east of the Mississippi. He will win almost no delegates from the South, but he is likely to carry the big-city delegations. Humphrey has recently taken to courting New York and Philadelphia Democratic machines, but it is unlikely that their present defeat-prone leaders will be around in 1972. In any case, city bosses will be inclined to support the candidate more likely to do well in their bailiwicks, and they will not fall to notice that Kennedy will...
Meanwhile, commentators will be able to note that Robert Kennedy will be snagging on the shoals and stubbing his toes on the rocks of New York politics--and so, supposedly, will be unable to mount a Presidential drive for want of a secure "home base." It is true that the junior Senator will probably not be able to name the Democratic candidate for Governor, who has an excellent chance for defeating Nelson Rockefeller this fall; or choose the man who should fail miserably to defeat Senator Jacob Javits in 1968; or select the Democrat...
...piling up huge majorities for themselves in state-wide elections. All Robert Kennedy's failures in New York will mean nothing next to the margin he will amass in winning re-election in 1970--something like two million votes. All Presidential Candidate Kennedy needs from his "home base" is its convention votes, plus evidence of his personal vote-getting ability. Robert Kennedy should find it possible to travel the road to the White House without ever learning his way around the crooked back hallways of Albany...