Word: democratics
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John Kerry, national superstar of the antiwar movement, was supposed to win it all in the Fifth. He has all the ingredients needed in a successful candidate. He is young, rich aggressive ruggedly handsome, personable, and a Democrat, Especially a Democrat. On voter registration polls the Massachusetts Fifth District is two-to-one Democratic and it includes traditional Democratic strongholds in the urban areas of Lowell and Lawrence...
...lost the gubernatorial race in 1968 when he advocated a state income tax that his opponent later instituted. If he won this Senate race it would show that he was still a viable political candidate; if he lost he was politically dead. Pell, at 53 an old-line Democrat, fully realized that the Democrats would not capture the White House, and if he lost his Senate seat he'd have nowhere...
...weeks ago when the jury in the second trial of his libel suit against the magazine voted 12 to 0 in his favor, agreeing that the article was substantially false and that it defamed Alioto. Thus vindicated, the ebullient, violin-playing mayor is now being touted as the California Democrat with the best chance of receiving his party's gubernatorial nomination in 1974, when Ronald Reagan's present term is up. A resume of his trouble and triumphs...
Like Nixon, Brooke has a strong sense of history. Being the first black President of the United States would rank high in any encyclopedia, but Brooke will have to fight Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, and possibly Sea. Charles H. Percy (R III.) or renegade Democrat John B. Connolly for the 1976 GOP nomination...
McGovern also did poorly with groups which have traditionally been the backbone of the Democratic party. McGovern became the first Democrat in history to lose a majority of the Roman Catholic vote. The South Dakota Senator also became the first Democrat in recent memory to not carry blue collar workers...