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...regarded as a one-issue antiwar champion of the liberal-left, exploited his own superb organization in the state, tapped deep wells of economic discontent and, by winning a 30% plurality, transformed himself at last into a major candidate. In Wisconsin his support was astonishingly broad, bracketing liberals, conservatives, blue-collar workers, farmers, suburbanites and the young...
...week's contest in Wisconsin, with twelve candidates on the ballot in a large state that is in many ways a microcosm of the U.S., will be the first real bloodletting of the year, the first primary in which candidates risk being eliminated. Rural and industrial, populated by blue-collar workers, farmers, ethnic minorities and students, Wisconsin is known for its independent, sophisticated and erratic voting behavior; it was the home of Senator Joe McCarthy, but also of Robert LaFollette. John Kennedy undercut Humphrey there in 1960, and it was on the eve of the 1968 Wisconsin primary that...
Racism is pervasive in and around Southie. It is a simple faith, as simple as the patriotism in Cronin's bar or the bingo games at St. Augustine's. This is a blue-collar neighborhood, heavily Irish, made up of triple-decker wooden houses and smaller ones of brick. The district is only 1% black; Southie's 2,000 students include exactly one black, a West Indian girl who says she survives at the school "because I speak with a foreign accent." Students tell a story of some whites dangling a black youth out a third-floor...
...sample that showed Muskie receiving 58% of the vote and McGovern 19%; it was never updated. Pat Caddell, the 22-year-old president of Cambridge Survey Research, in private polls for McGovern, gave Muskie 46% and McGovern 30%. Caddell did, however, advise correctly that McGovern could do well in blue-collar and middle-income areas by taking specific though not necessarily popular stands on issues. Overall, the polling in the nation's first primary was fairly accurate...
...year federal court action over charges by eight women inspectors of precision equipment-all with at least twelve years' seniority-that they had been passed over for advancement in favor of men with less time on the job and had been denied overtime opportunities. In blue-collar work, many unions agree to rules that screen out many women from certain job categories...