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...open-housing issue got Mahoney the attention he wanted. By the time of the election, Finan and Sickles had battered each other so badly that Mahoney emerged from the dust as the winner. The reason so many people were surprised was that no one wanted to admit Mahoney had a chance. But he did, and he did from the beginning. Open-housing was merely the clincher. Many Baltimore workers in the huge plants of Dundalk and Sparrows Point abandoned Finan when Mahoney forced him to take a stand...
...Baltimore city itself, Mahoney only beat Sickles by 2000 votes, but in blue-collar Baltimore County Mahoney took 40,000 to Sickles 21,000, and it was all over...
...Mahoney spent an incredibly low $.58 per vote. He hardly ever appeared on television and hardly ever campaigned in the Washington suburbs. But he won without the exposure Finan and Mahoney got. He received all the notoriety he needed from open-housing, then sat back and let the others tear themselves apart...
When the votes began to roll in on election night and it appeared Mahoney would win by a landslide, someone at Sickles campaign headquarters started circulating a Democrats for Spiro T. Agnew (the Republican candidate) petition. After the results of the primary had been verified, the movement grew, and Democrats began to desert the party in force. Two of Baltimore's most powerful union leaders declared their support of Pressman the Independent. (The union leaders had contributed heavily to the Sickles primary campaign fund while the rank-and-file membership voted overwhelmingly for Mahoney and will probably do so again...
Sickles said in his concession speech that he could not as a Democrat support Agnew or Pressman, but he withheld endorsement of Mahoney -- at least temporarily...