Word: formful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...partisan group like ADA--will get together after the election. McCarthy and Kennedy people never merged following the assassination, since the McCarthy slate had been elected in the May primary. Much of the Kennedy organization was out-of-state, leaving the McCarthy machine few with which to form a viable coalition. Re-electing Sen. Wayne Morse occupy most liberals this fall...
...state has a relatively simple organization to crack," said one McCarthy operative. The McCarthyites were brutally put down in party caucuses last summer and they are mad. They are mad enough to form a Washington Democratic Council (WDC) along the lines of the CDC to try to take over the party. "A lot of people are determined to stick around the party and do some homework; the only real question is how easy it is to change the people into long-term politicians," Ed Voris said, a Seattle McCarthyite...
...present form, Sassafras can boast only a semi-humorous premise and an incredible two-hour anthology of stillborn gag lines...
...machine states like Illinois, New York, and New Jersey, however, CDC-type groups are ineffective. The liberals must either work within the old party structure to take it over--not build a stronger parallel structure within the party as in California--or give up and form a new party. This hasn't been very effective in the past because liberals, whether because of their suburban anti-partisan phobia or for some other reason, continually shy away from the drudgery of precinct-leaderdom. In Pennsylvania and New York significant reform groups have risen many times, but they never worked long enough...
Until now black voter registration and the first black campaigns for office excited the imagination of the biracial coalition. But the excitement is ending and the same ugly reality continues to exist, though in a slightly changed form...