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Reported by Dean Brelis /Calcutta, Philip Finnegan/ Cairo and Jaime A. FlorCruz/ Shanghai
This new Freedom Ride was so effective that the city-wide student coordinating committee decided to continue it every Saturday until the election But the Ride remains a small part of the momentum in the King campaign. After the primary several Finnegan offices, rented through November went to the King campaign: some of the minor candidates and Barney Frank endorsed King. Yet with all the serious concerns and high-level politics, the campaign field staff applauded enthusiastically when the students announced that the Freedom Buses will keep on rolling. Students sometimes fail to realize the influence they can exert...
Both King and Flynn, 44, were underdogs when the campaign got under way last March. The early front runner, former Radio Personality David Finnegan, as handsome and glib as he was generously financed and politically well connected, looked unbeatable once White was out of the way. Yet Finnegan, 42, who spent more than twice as much on the campaign as King and Flynn combined, acquired a reputation for arrogance and for being the too smooth "downtown candidate" run by the Boston Establishment. He finished third, with 25% of the vote, 4 percentage points behind the leaders...
...would need to sweep the black vote again and pick up at least 30% of the city's white vote, which is 12% more than Harold Washington took when he won the mayoral race in Chicago. Flynn, meanwhile, is expected to attract the bulk of Finnegan's votes as well as maintain his overwhelming support among fellow working-class Irish Americans in neighborhoods like his South Boston home district...
...Newspapers in competition want to be perceived as having clout and impact. The perception of clout might add to readership." That kind of endorsement sounds like reason enough to forget Finnegan. And the Globe. despite admirable restraint, is guilty of a similar small view Clout and influence. playing the percentages, all the pragmatic technicalities of politics have been the obsession of both papers...