Word: connors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have become increasingly finicky about supporting Democrats, and fickle in their preferences. For example, two years ago they were the shrillest opponents of Robert Kennedy, and today they like to claim him as one of their own. Their specific objections to the current Democratic candidate for Governor, Frank O'Connor, boil down to two minor, long-since repudiated incidents in the early 1950's. Their real objection seems to lie in the fact that most City liberals just naturally assume that a Roman Catholic from Queens who was a District Attorney and head of the New York State Elks just...
...City liberals instinctively dislike O'Connor, they have no one place to go this year. Many will probably vote for Rockefeller, and others, reluctantly, for O'Connor. FDR Jr., whose liberal credentials are not as strong as O'Connor's, brings to mind the remark (originally made about William Scranton) that he is not half the man his mother was. Everyone knows that Liberal Party boss Alex Rose picked him as the Party's best chance to keep third place in the state and Line C on the ballot for the next four years. (The Liberal Party always does much...
...Senator would sincerely like to beat him this year. And he would just as soon do it with his own personal bloc of voters as with Alex Rose's or the West Side Reform Democrats'. So when the Liberals indicated that they would refuse to endorse O'Connor, and city liberals began to grumble and screech, Kennedy calmly ignored them and, by not endorsing anyone, locked up the nomination for O'Connor...
Since then, the Senator has backed O'Connor far more strongly than, as titular party leader, he has to. His brother-in-law Stephen Smith is O'Connor's de facto campaign manager and seems to be getting on well with the O'Connor team. Kennedy staffers in key Upstate cities are spending all their time on the O'Connor campaign. The Senator himself will appear with O'Connor in places like Buffalo and Syracuse, for he knows that an O'Connor victory, on the strength of Kennedy bloc votes, will make the junior Senator unquestionably the strongest...
After the pathetically rigged Liberal convention, Alex Rose told reporters that his own polls showed that, even if Roosevelt won 500,000 votes, O'Connor would still beat Rockefeller by 600,000. He was, in effect, trying to save his own political skin by doing what he knew in his heart was wrong. He was also recognizing, sadly, the shift of political leverage in New York state from the city liberal to the Upstate Kennedy block. All that remains to be said is that Rose's poll was accurate enough, and that with or without the city liberals, O'Connor...