Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SENATORS DEMOCRAT NIXON Hathaway, Me. 53% 61% Huddleston, Ky. 51 64 Haskell, Colo. 50 63 GOVERNORS Docking, Kans. 63 68 Salmon, Vt. 55 63 Kneip, S. Dak. 60 54 Rampton, Utah 70 68 Judge, Mont. 54 58 Bumpers...
Combination. There were many more difficulties?Nixon's 2-to-1 advantage in campaign funds, the labor split, Nixon's success in insulating himself in the White House. But there was something else, something that went beyond a litany of the Democrat's blunders and bad breaks. "A combination of circumstances may have conspired against McGovern's success," observes TIME Correspondent Dean Fischer, "but more significant are the shortcomings of the candidate himself. He failed to articulate a vision of the nation. He talked vaguely of his goals once peace is restored, but they sounded like campaign promises instead...
Moakley, however, used this factor to explain the defeat in his own South Boston neighborhood: "People felt I'd left the church," he said. "But I'll be a Democrat when I get to Washington and I'll run as a Democrat in the next election...
Politics in Boston's old 9th used to be fairly predictable. The old inner city district had a hard-core Democratic electorate of Italians, Irish. Hacks and working class whites that had faithfully delivered about 40 per cent of its votes to conservative Democrat Louise Day Hicks in her campaigns for the School Committee, the Boston mayoralty and the U.S. Congress...
Appearing to the 65 per cent who had voted against Hicks on primary day and promising new responsive representation for the new diverse district Chy Councillor John "Joe" Moakley declared himself in. In dependent while avowedly remaining a Democrat at heart and urned the November general election for Congress into a contest between the Old and the New politics in the 9th District...