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Although I promised myself at the start of this piece that I would not eulogize my candidate, let me just say that on the night that Birch Bayh lost, he showed himself to be the classiest candidate in the field. His cool public concession in which he urged his supporters to pursue those goals upon which he had based his candidacy won him many votes after the fact. And privately, in the upstairs suite at the Copley Plaza Hotel, surrounded by staff-people, volunteers, and the usual campaign flotsam, he exhibited unusual strength. Moving from worker to worker, especially seeking...
Whatever the case, the real mistake of 1976 was not made by Jack Walsh, Birch Bayh, or me. It was made by the Democratic voters and non-voters in this allegedly progressive commonwealth. That they did not vote for Birch Bayh is forgiveable; that the Democratic conservatives outpolled the liberals by close to a 60 to 40 per cent margin is not. Between them, Bayh, Harris, Udall, Shriver and Shapp received 37.9 per cent of the vote in a state in which Democrats usually favor the liberals by 20 percentage points. Fifty-eight per cent of the vote went...
...rate, they were none too familiar with Birch Bayh, and one of them finally asked us why she should vote for him. I was tired but JF was not, and for ten minutes one of the best organizers in the state lectured her on the merits of Birch Bayh; his jobs proposals, his leadership in the Senate, his unequalled record on women's rights, his great American coalition, his incomparable political assets. They all listened carefully, but I could see that the one who asked the question wanted more...
...assured her that Birch Bayh cared for the Brazilians. It's just that he had to keep it a secret. "For a politician to espouse their cause would actually hurt them," I concluded. "It would lose votes...
...Democrat in his or her right political mind could afford to speak out continually for the truly forgotten people. Nelson Rockefeller was vilified for not paying taxes like the rest of us, but not even Fred Harris talked about conditions at Attica. Only Birch Bayh and Sargent Shriver talked straightforwardly and consistently about helping black people, and between them they garnered 12.9 per cent of the vote...