Word: lindsays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yorkers will go to the polls today for or against their dashing liberal mayor, John Lindsay. The election climaxes a long and often brutal campaign that has shattered both major political parties in New York City...
Those voting against the Mayor will vote for either Republican-Conservative John Marchi, a Staten Island State Senator, or Democrat Mario Procaccino, the city's Comptroller. Lindsay, who lost the Republican primary to Marchi in June, is running on both Liberal and Independent tickets...
...final tally of the New York Daily News straw poll- never wrong in a mayoral election-indicates that the anti-Lindsay vote will go 27 per cent for Procaccino and 23 per cent for Marchi, with Lindsay getting a 48 per cent plurality...
Whatever the results of the election, New York's party system will never be the same. Most liberal politicians have deserted their party's standard-bearers to support Lindsay. These include Herman Badillo and Percy Sutton, Democrat boroughpresidents of the Bronx and Manhattan and New York's Republican Senators, Charles Goodell and Jacob Javits...
...Republican party in New York small and conservative, has long been at odds with Lindsay. A Lindsay victory today-one which would come without official party backing-would place the Mayor in a strange position in national Republican politics. It is questionable whether party regulars on a national level would give the Mayor many brownie points for a victory built around Democratic support and a campaign that turned opposition to President Nixon's Vietnam policy into a major issue. Both Nixon and Governor Rockefeller tacitly endorsed Marchi in the election...