Word: frontlash
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...Jersey: Incumbent Harrison A. Williams Jr., 44, the state's first Democratic Senator since 1936, expects to profit from an anti-Barry "frontlash" in his second-term bid. Challenger Bernard M. Shanley, 61, a former aide to Dwight Eisenhower, is trying hard, but with scant chance...
Goldwater strategists see the Midwest as the crucial battleground in this fall's election, but one Midwestern state no one expects the Senator to carry is Michigan. There is usually a Democratic majority there and considerable evidence of strong frontlash this year, especially n the suburbs outside Detroit. White backlash is apparently not as strong in Michigan as in some large industrial states; in a key primary, seven-term Congressman John Lesinski, the only northern Democrat to vote against the civil rights bill, was beaten by his more liberal colleague John Dingell. Lesinski's defeat shows that hard work, particularly...
...than Nebraska, South Dakota and Ohio in doubt. And while most show Lyndon losing one out of every ten Democratic voters because of the civil rights "backlash," they also show him picking up three out of every ten Republicans because of what he loves to call the anti-Goldwater "frontlash...