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...Connecticut Democratic peace candidate Rev. Joseph Duffey suffered from a split in his party and was defeated by Republican Rep. Lowell P. Weiker. Incumbent Senator Thomas Dodd, a Democrat running as an Independent, won 28 per cent of the vote, most of it in traditionally Democratic blue collar areas. The gubernatorial race, won by Republican Thomas Meskill with 54 per cent, also helped Weiker's effort...
...Duffey's campaign was considered a significant index of the strength of McCarthy-style peace campaigns. Duffey was a strong supporter of McCarthy's presidential...
CONNECTICUT: The bizarre career of incumbent Sen. Thomas J. Dood appears to be at an end. Running as an independent, Dodd is given little chance of winning. His only impact on the election will be to cut into the votes of the Democratic candidate, Rev. Joseph D. Duffey. Dodd, who has a liberal record on domestic matters but a mysteriously conservative stance on foreign policy, will benefit from his religion. He is a Roman Catholic in a heavily Catholic state. Duffey, a peace candidate and a backer of the 1968 Presidential bid of Gene McCarthy, is a Congregationalist minister...
...much Dodd cuts into Duffey's vote will determine whether the election is won by the Republican candidate, Rep. Lowell P. Weiker. Weiker is considered a moderate Republican, but supports the Nixon course in Indochina...
Peace Action will also coordinate volunteers and transportation at Harvard for such out-of-state candidates as Joseph Duffey running for the Senate in Connecticut, former governor Phillip Hoff running for the Senate in Vermont, and Adlai E. Stevenson III 52 running for Senator in Illinois...