Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...university in his district was no advantage, Scheer insists, "although everyone always assumes I did well because I had the faculty and all these fervent student leftists behind me." Actually one political scientist from Cal worked for him; the others, he says, were friends of Jeffrey Cohelan, the incumbent Democrat. Even the student leftists, including the Berkeley chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, opposed him. "They accused me of legimitizing the Democratic Party and ruining the left movement. I didn't care. But as it turned out, the 1000 kids who worked were mostly dormies and frat people...
...Respectability is the problem," according to one Massachusetts political observer who claims that the suburban Irish-Italian vote is the pivotal one in state-wide elections. He claims that this bloc, especially the Irish part of it, was anxious to repudiate past performances by Democrats. The bloc therefore passed over any Democrat who had a connection with old-fashioned politics and voted for the Republican. He cited the re-election of of Secretary of State Kevin H. White, Treasurer Robert Q. Crane, and Auditor Thaddeus Buczko, all Democrats and all men who have no connection with the Democratic party...
...bastion of radicalism. Moreover, Frank was not tempermentally inclined to seek out students on the left. Though he worked in Mississippi for COFO in the summer of 1964, he had not, like many civil rights workers, cut his ties with conventional politics. Far from it, he remained a Regular Democrat (capital R and capital D), even if a very liberal one. During the past state campaign he worked for the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Edward J. McCormack...
...California and Illinois, Governor Pat Brown and Senator Paul Douglas were running badly behind their Republican challengers. In New York, Idaho, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana and Wyoming, six other states on his tentative itinerary, the major battles were rated as tossups. In Oregon, where Democrat Robert Duncan campaigned for a Senate seat largely on his support for the Administration's Viet Nam policy, the President might have risked an apparent repudiation of that policy at the polls...
...MISSISSIPPI U.S. SENATOR Eastland (D)* (winner) Walker (R) U.S. House (5) +1 Democrat...