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...unyoung, unpoor and unblack." Street crime and the fear of young protestors are the most pressing issues on the minds of American voters in the 1970's, and politicians who fail to realize this will certainly be defeated. LBJ moderate columnists like John Roche and Evans-Novak beat their centrist drums on behalf of the book, and The Real Majority enjoyed the peculiar American honor of becoming more than a book. Like Portnoy's Complaint, it became an event unto itself...
...choice which the Democratic Party faces in the year ahead is essentially that of holding to the traditional centrist position which seeks to make friends with everyone while alienating no one, or of staking out a new position on the Left. It is, in a certain sense, a choice between two poles set up by James Q. Wilson in The Amateur Democrat. Democrats can seek to be "professionals" who see their main purpose as winning elections for the sake of winning and who use "issues" as means to election. Or they can become "amateurs" for whom democratic politics...
...fact, many Wallace voters were former supporters of Robert Kennedy. They favor a candidate with "guts" and are unlikely to be enthusiastic about a centrist Democrat. Certainly many of the Southerners who supported Wallace (and who accounted for about 50 per cent of his vote), are not likely to support a candidate on the Left this time around. But the dissatisfaction of the more than four million Northerners who supported Wallace in 1968 goes much deeper than race, and this dissatisfaction could manifest itself differently this time around...
Muskie has been under a great deal of pressure since the beginning of his campaign from the centrist faction, which includes the Scammons and columnists like Evans and Novak. They insist that Muskie must avoid the "lemming left" in order to win in November. Consequently, when Muskie endorsed the National Peace Action Coalition's April 24 March on Washington. Evans and Novak criticized him for supporting a demonstration sponsored by "a Trotskyite front." They even criticized him for speaking at a liberal rally in Providence. R.I. organized by Allard Lowenstein...
...This is not to say that Lindsay and McCarthy have not attacked similar problems. Lindsay, for example, has criticized "Washington" for "killing a day care program for 30 million working mothers" while "giving away four billion dollars a year to big corporations." And McCarthy has directed attacks against the centrist political structure for eliminating many questions from consideration in the political arena...