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...November 3, Studds had spent more than $125,000 and had enlisted over 1000 volunteers in his attempt to represent the state's most populous Congressional district, which includes the South Shore suburbs, Cape Cod and New Bedford. The success of his campaign so unnerved Keith, a lackluster former insurance agent whose only distinction is the most conservative record in the Massachusetts Congressional delegation, that he brought in Senator Edward Brooke and HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson to campaign for him, had his aides investigate Studds' past, accused him of lying about his previous jobs, and strongly implied that a Keith...
Studds did not win, though he came much closer than a lot of people expected. His strategy called for him to cut slightly into the Republican majority on Cape Cod, break even in Plymouth County, and then come out of the Democratic strongholds of Weymouth and New Bedford with a large enough majority to offset the Cape, and win. He lost because he did not break even in strongly Republican Plymouth County, where Keith's smear attempts-distributed by local Republicans in "Studds Sheets"-undoubtedly had an effect...
Studds did, in fact, do very well in New Bedford, the old whaling city of 100,000 which has the second highest unemployment rate in the country. As Studds remarked to a reporter the day after the election, "There's no excuse, in a city like that, for anyone to vote for Keith...
Nevertheless, it is unusual for a peace candidate to do so well in a working class area which has produced some of the most reactionary politicians in the state. Studds worked hard in New Bedford, campaigning tirelessly at factory gates, shopping centers and social clubs, and building an organization that conducted the closest thing to a professional campaign the city had ever seen. The peace issue was played down in New Bedford, with more emphasis placed on the need for "new leadership" and Studds' identification with Senator Edward M. Kennedy...
...students with little or no success. During the two-week break of the Princeton Plan, exactly five students showed up to work. Only on November 3 did students from the Boston area really turn out, and they played an important part in getting out the vote in New Bedford...