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After exciting the crowd by ripping apart a 1972 Nixon bumper sticker, Patty Knox, Carter's Massachusetts campaign manager, told onlookers that the election results prove Massachusetts Democrats can turn out the vote even when former president John F. Kennedy '40's old nemesis is not heading the Republican ticket...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter and M. BRETT Gladstone, S | Title: Carter, Ford Camps, Keep Tense Vigils | 11/3/1976 | See Source »

After the 1972 election, Massachusetts cars began sporting bumper stickers saying "Don't Blame Me, I'm From Massachusetts." If Jimmy Carter loses on November 2, he certainly won't be able to blame his Massachusetts campaigners. It may look like a local landslide, but that may be just what Carter wants

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: Just Going Through the Motions: The Ford and Carter Campaigns in Massachusetts | 11/2/1976 | See Source »

...suggest that it was just that we, in our trademarked slovenly drunkards manner, were drowning our sorrows in beer?... Obnoxious? I leave it to the normal Harvardite to respond to that one for me. 3) Return to no. 2. 4) "Hangover"! You must have read that on a bumper sticker somewhere. I really wonder, Mike, what you were looking at when you came up here. Are you so blind that you could not see the autumn colors for miles around that, by the way, draw thousands of tourists yearly to New England, and even Hanover, yearly. As for being cooped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kangaroo Court | 11/2/1976 | See Source »

...trouble as he turned briskly into the Jimmy Carter storefront office in downtown Indianapolis last week. For months he had traveled around the country trying to sign up voters. It had been discouraging: only a few volunteers ever showed up, and there was rarely enough money for buttons and bumper stickers to soften up a sullen public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VOTERS: WILL 70 MILLION SIT IT OUT? | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

Although the presidential race still looks like a celebrity sweepstakes at times, this campaign differs substantially from those in the past. Star-spangled benefits, which once filled concert halls and provided candidates with quick revenues, have gone the way of Nixon bumper stickers. The reason? The new campaign spending law makes such fund raisers useless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITIES: FAMOUS FACES IN THE RACES | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

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