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Political consultant Thomas R. Kiley, head of Kerry's polling operations, said last week that Bay State Opinion Research is one of several trade names used by his firm, Marttila and Kiley Associates...
...exactly turn conservative. On a radio talk show he said that he admired Cuba's Fidel Castro more than he did Ronald Reagan. But in general, King conveyed a sense of thoughtfulness. He talked relentlessly about the multiracial "rainbow coalition" that supported his candidacy. Says John Marttila, a Boston political analyst: "The most important element was the tone of Mel's campaign. It is a far more unifying tone than when he ran in 1979." In the end, King won the votes of 95% of blacks and 15% of whites, and carried half of the city...
This time, however, VanderVeen got considerable help from the United Auto Workers and the Boston political-consulting firm of Marttila, Payne, Kiley & Thorne, which had helped engineer up set victories for Father Robert Drinan in a Massachusetts congressional race in 1970 and for Joseph Biden in a 1972 U.S. Senate election in Delaware. The Democrats never let the voters forget that VanderLaan was a man from Nixon's party, while their candidate was "his own man." In a district where Republicanism is considered next to godliness, the Democrats emphasized how far the idols had fallen. In one campaign...
...election--an approach which his weekly polls tell him is working well. The primary thrust of his organization is a canvass of almost all 152,000 voters in the city, using computers to discover the issues most important to different groups of voters. His campaign manager John P. Marttila, who also ran Father Drinan's campaign last year, last week denied the charge that the campaign lacked the personal touch, "What could be more personal than going door to door and talking to the voters...
...Mayor ran better than even Marttila expected. "The current wisdom is that she'll win by about 15,000 votes. I think it will be closer than that," Marttila had predicted on the Sunday before the elections (Boston Globe, September...