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...other end of the spectrum, Councillor Craig A. Kelley’s $ 26,295 in expenditures were the lowest among elected councillors. “What I am good at is keeping up with people during the year,” said Kelley. School Committee member Marc C. McGovern, who spent $23,637—more than any other member to secure his seat—said the discrepancy between council and School Committee campaign spending does not reflect their relative importance. “People have this idea, ‘oh, school committee, it’s just...
...sure, if the hard-hat white Democrats who are backing Clinton in the primaries stampede to John McCain in November, Obama will be in trouble no matter how many computer programmers he wins. That's what happened to McGovern and Dukakis, neither of whom cracked 40% among blue-collar whites...
...changed since then. In the '70s and '80s, beer Democrats were easy pickings for Republicans. In 1972 they detested McGovern's amnesty plan for Vietnam draft dodgers and his support for forced busing. After McGovern won the nomination, the Teamsters, longshoremen and construction-workers unions refused to back him. Something similar happened in 1988, when white working-class Democrats couldn't stomach Dukakis' opposition to the death penalty. In both years, the primaries exposed bitter ideological divisions that came back to haunt the party in November. In 1972 Democrat Henry (Scoop) Jackson, in his bid for blue-collar primary votes...
...watering hole near the state capitol may come closest to the heart of Texas' Democratic Party. Liberals have been hatching plans here since Lyndon Johnson was a big-eared kid, and for a few months in 1972, it was the venue of choice for the young organizers of George McGovern's quixotic Texas presidential campaign - including Hillary Rodham and her future husband Bill Clinton. But on the night of Feb. 19, the place was a hive of Texans for Barack Obama...
...then this scene would fade into a picture of the same Scholz Garten 36 years ago. The hair is shaggier, the eyeglasses bigger, but the buzz is the same. It's all about insurgency and outsiders and change and down with Establishments. McGovern, Gary Hart, Howard Dean, Obama - at Scholz's, fresh candidates' faces are always on tap. The only difference is that Hillary Clinton was hip to it 36 years ago and she's a victim of it today. This film is about coming full circle, and like all such tales, it is thick with poignancy. After 10 straight...