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This growing threat from the Right is part of the challenge facing the Democratic Party during the next four years. If the Democrats can again become the party of the people, based on an alliance of the blacks, the poor, the blue-collar workers and the intellectuals, then something of value will have come from their defeat. Such a rebirth will require work and imagination, but it is not impossible...
...Jersey, expected to give Wallace substantial blue-collar support, and Nixon a majority of from 100,000 to 300,000 votes, turned out to be a cliff-hanger. Wallace ran poorly, with only about ten per cent of the vote, and Humphrey support materialized in the last week of the campaign. The state eventually went to Nixon, however, by about 50,000 votes early this morning...
...fund-raising dinner was just getting underway. The diners here, like the crowd which had welcomed him at Hershey a few hours before, were a very different group from the people who had turned out to see Wallace shortly before in New York and Trenton. Those people were predominantly blue-collar workers and their children. But in Harrisburg Wallace's supporters were of the older right-wing breed--used-car salesmen, small businessmen and farmers who used to be Republicans, not Democrats...
...near Harrisburg told me that he was afraid that rioters were going to come and burn down his barn--they have little else in common, and the Wallace movement is related to them in different ways. It depends on the middle-class right-wingers for money, and on the blue-collar workers for the mass support which has transformed Wallace from a regional to a national figure...
...others, new politics-or massive student and suburbanite participation--was no mere idealistic indulgence. Ohio's unions, which lavishly sponsored his successful primary run against Sen. Frank Lausche this spring, have ignored his banner since Chicago. Gilligan likes black people and dislikes Dean Rusk, a bit much for the blue-collar barons just...