Word: districts
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...G.O.P.'s most spectacular Midwest gains came in the House races and were, in large part, the result of having exceptionally attractive young candidates. In Michigan, Republican challengers ousted all five of the Democratic Congressmen who were newly elected in 1964. Biggest upset occurred in the Seventh District (Flint and environs), where Republican Donald W. Riegle Jr., 28, literally quit school?he was working on a business doctorate at Harvard?to take on First-Termer John Mackie, 46, Democratic wheelhorse and longtime state highway commissioner. Riegle, who tirelessly trod city streets and crashed Democratic rallies, buried Mackie...
Robert Scheer, who looks like a fat cat New York hippie in his three-piece suits and polished Italian boots, won 45 percent of the vote in California's seventh district in the June primary election. Since then, he has been quizzed about how it happened, and urged to run for the U.S. Senate or at least the Berkeley City Council; he has also become an ornament for the New Left...
Having the 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...
Scheer claims his district is pretty typical of California and says what they did there can be done anyplace. "We had poor Negroes, bourgeois Negroes, fat cat whites in the hills, and the working class whites in Emoryville and Albany, outside Berkeley...
...free television coverage. Suddenly cameraman -- even from William Knowland's conservative Oakland Tribune -- were following him everywhere. "Some of my Ramparts friends told me to cool the 'Black Power' stuff if I wanted to win, but I insisted there really wasn't any white backlash in the District...