Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rivals for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination by keying his campaign to prejudiced-or frightened -whites. In Louisiana, twelve-term Congressman James Morrison paid for his moderate racial record by losing the Democratic primary election to Segregationist John Rarick, who attacked Morrison as an ally of "the black-power voting bloc...
...committees, the politicking had already begun. The younger representatives were lobbying vigorously for a share of the chairmanships that in the normal traditions of Vietnamese society would automatically go to their elders. The central Vietnamese, encouraged by General Vinh Loc, II Corps commander, were trying to put together a bloc to protect their interests against the north and the south. All told, some 60 to 70 political parties provided the setting of South Viet Nam's venture into nationhood as the Assembly set to work...
They will be similarly quick to bolt when a sufficiently unattractive Republican comes along -- and in Upstate New York, that means Nelson Rockefeller. Kennedy bloc voters apparently always considered Rockefeller, in his hot pursuit of city liberal votes, shifty and untrustworthy. His divorce and remarriage confirmed all their suspicions. Rockefeller's ultra-expensive campaign, with its clever Jack Tinker Agency ads, seems unlikely to convince these people that he can be trusted...
Senator Robert Kennedy's strategy in encouraging and appealing to the new Kennedy bloc has become increasingly clear during the campaign. The Kennedys have never thought highly of Nelson Rockefeller, and the Senator would sincerely like to beat him this year. And he would just as soon do it with his own personal bloc of voters as with Alex Rose's or the West Side Reform Democrats'. So when the Liberals indicated that they would refuse to endorse O'Connor, and city liberals began to grumble and screech, Kennedy calmly ignored them and, by not endorsing anyone, locked...
...well with the O'Connor team. Kennedy staffers in key Upstate cities are spending all their time on the O'Connor campaign. The Senator himself will appear with O'Connor in places like Buffalo and Syracuse, for he knows that an O'Connor victory, on the strength of Kennedy bloc votes, will make the junior Senator unquestionably the strongest man in New York politics...