Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote last March; he brought about a revolution in the state party's politics on the side. McCarthy forces under the leadership of Dartmouth instructor David C. Hoeh, a congressional candidate, won about forty-five per cent of party precincts in an early September primary election. They are very close to electing a McCarthyite party chairman. Where most of Gene's organization last winter were out-of-state college students, the liberals have now developed native leadership in town after town. The Nixon landslide is expected to defeat Hoeh and most other major Democratic candidates; the McCarthy leadership just hopes...
...McCarthy last summer controls about fifteen per cent of the party structure. The liberals are surprisingly well organized for such a Wallacite state. The coalition is strongest in Chapel Hill (the University of North Carolina), Durham, and to a certain extent Charlotte where a strong coalition came very close to winning last vear. The biracial forces will shoot for city posts in 1969 and seizure of country organizationa control whereever possible...
...coalition of McCarthy and Kennedy (with strong, progressive Mexican-American support) forces is very close to taking over the state organization. They controlled about forty-five per cent of last summer's party convention and won a proportionate number of seats on the national convention delegation. Party elections are in January; following the November elections the Kennedy-McCarthy coalition hopes to organize precinct by precinct to rest control from the corrupt party organization in January...
...McCarthy stripe are few and far between in this poverty-stricken state, but the moderate reformers like Sec. of State party nominee John D. Rockefeller IV are relatively liberal. James Sprouce, a reformer won the party nomination after a long fight against one of the state's many close to corrupt party officials. If he wins, the reformers will have control of the all important patronage to build themselves up for 1970. A possible challenge for progressives in '70 is conservative Sen. Byrd. Men to watch are Sprouce and Rockefeller...
...different political realities of such similar states as Wyoming and Montana. In the former, Senator Gale W. GcGee is the Democratic Party--liberals won't challenge his leadership, while in Montana a strong McCarthy movement which brought thousands of previously non-political people into the battle and came very close to winning in 1968 has left a liberal militancy unknown to this state before. The party organization tried to put down the McCarthyites and used some heavy handed tactics while doing it. Instead of retreating back to their apathy or into the insignificant minority they were in the past, most...