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...crowd of GOP liberals-dressed in coats and ties and adorned with little red buttons which read "McCloskey for higher public office" -enthusiastically applauded the speech with another standing ovation. McCloskey left immediately afterwards...
Byrd was undoubtedly hoping for Republican endorsement of his Senatorial candidacy this year, but the Virginia GOP, feeling its Wheaties after electing its first Governor since Reconstruction, declined to offer its support, and nominated Ray Garland, a Roanoke lawyer...
Universal education at this level might make matters worse. On the basis of voting data in 1968, the GOP is proving the party of the college graduate. While the New Left has grown to a formidable size, its proportion among youth remains small. The proportion shrinks further after graduation. For his part, Gerzon seems to believe in a permanent estrangement of the generations. Such a view lacks foundation. After returning home to a job in a Middle American community, even radical college students may well revise their political stances. Many will revert in time to the party affiliations inherited from...
Javits said that the progressives in the Republican Party have an "infinitely better chance" today than twenty years ago. He said the election of John P. Lindsay in New York and of moderate Republicans to the governor-ship in Maryland and Virginia and to the Senate GOP leadership are "encouraging signs...
This stray win last week, though, is slightly bizarre. Not only is Harrington the first Democrat from that district since 1874, but one of the most unlikely as well. In GOP territory, he refused to run as a moderate or tailor his views to appeal to the center. True, he played on war weariness, but he also made clear his dislike for moderate thinking on a broad range of issues...