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...have been a good year for the Democratic Party, Richard Nixon to the contrary notwithstanding, but it was discouraging for those who hoped to substantially change the temper of Congress. But even in losing, candidates who had been involved in the McCarthy campaign, such as Studds and Duffey in Connecticut, demonstrated a political realism painfully lacking in the past. In their efforts to create a constituency larger than just suburban liberals, through emphasizing issues such as unemployment and inflation, and in attempting to beat the opposition at a game it very often knows very little about, organization, a much-needed...
...Duffey, Studds and a lot of other people lost last month for a variety of reasons, not all to do with the war or campus radicals or Spiro Agnew. Just maybe this year's setbacks will provide valuable lessons for 1972. At any rate, there is an election in two years and something has to be done again...
...proved crucial. Two Senate victories that the Republicans picked up almost casually ?Glenn Beall's in Maryland and Lowell Weicker's in Connecticut?turned on other factors. Weicker ran against two opponents, Democratic Incumbent Thomas Dodd. who campaigned as an independent after failing to win renomination. and Joseph Duffey, an antiwar liberal who had gained the party's designation. Beall unseated Joseph Tydings, whom LIFE accused last summer of having less-than-strict ethical standards. Tydings also failed to attract large numbers of black voters whose support he needed. Neither Beall nor Weicker matched the bellicosity emanating from Washington...
Looking at the results in the smoky hours of early Wednesday morning, it was easy for liberals to see the Apocalpyse arrived. Goodell, Duffey, Hoff, Tydings, and Gore all met defeat at the hands of Nixon men. Yet as the morning wore on and the cameras began to focus on the Western boards, the results were different. In Indiana, Utah, Nevada, North Dakota, and Wyoming, where Conservatives of the true mold had given their votes to the Republicans in 1968, the Administration bootlickers met ignominious defeat. And in California, a topsy-turvy state where currents and trends are so many...
Connecticut's traditional Democratic vote was split between that party's peace candidate, Rev. Joseph Duffey, and Thomas Dodd, the Democrat incumbent running as an Independent. Republican Rep. Lowell P. Weiker won with 41 per cent of the vote...