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...Veterans demonstration in Lexington, and the recent publication of Kerry's book. The New Soldier, combined to alsenate rather it attract the blue collar vote that Kerry needed to win. Kerry also suffered from the persistent belief that his move to Lowell was motivated solely by political ambition, while Cronin had a distinct local-boy advantage...
Lawrence went Republican in the Congressional race a phenomenon that had never before occurred not even in the Morse days and gave Cronin 14,452 votes to Kerry's 13,905. The vote was a direct repudiation of Kerry's candidates rather than a wholesale diverston from the town's traditional Democratic history. In the Presidential race. George McGovern outpolled Richard Nixon in Lawrence...
...Lowell, Kerry did even worse cronin took 53 per cent of the vote outdistancing Kerry, 20.747 to 17,227. Like Lawrence, Lowell voted against the local Democratic while going solidly for the party's national standard bearer McGovern...
...Cronin had nowhere near the monetary resources that Kerry could command, and he spent only about 40 per cent ($100,000) of what his opponent spent. His relative frugality strengthened his believability as a candidate who had the interests of the District in mind and ultimately played an important role in his upset victory...
...crowning blow against the Kerry quest came the Friday before election day, when Democrat-turned-Independent Roger P. Durkin with drew from the race and threw his support to Cronin. While not a major threat to win the election. Durkin commanded between 10 and 15 per cent of the popular support. Durkin had run a vigorous and conservative campaign that had directed most of its vituperative energy at Kerry. Durkin had stressed Kerry's "radicalism" and his ties with "yippie types" and had won the allegiance of the far right...