Word: moakley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home perctnets but to certain sectors of the media as well. The congresswoman played up to television and generally ignored radio and the newspapers. On Election Night, the quickest way to find out the vote total was to pick up the Channel 5 crib sheet or call Moakley headquarters Hicks's campaign strategists were holed up in a locked cloak room, counting tally sheets brought in periodically from the polls...
...candidates squared off early in the campaign, and the race shaped up as a choice between the Irish incumbent's "old" politics, and the challengers's "new" working-class coalition. Moakley had to battle a lack of exposure as well as the stigma of running on the Independent ticket in a district where voting means pulling the Democratic lever...
...week's defeat marked the end of the congressional road. She will undoubtedly hit the trail again, since politics are a family legacy. Her father, a judge and political boss in South Boston, told Louise on his deathbed "to take care of my people." Last week, it was Joe Moakley who knew how to take care of all the people in the 9th District including Louise Day Hicks...
...DISTRICT Congressional race overshadowed the national election for supporters of John "Joe" Moakley as they converged by the hundreds at the Statler-Hilton Ballroom on election night. The McGovern debacle and those "other 49 states" were preempted for the evening as all televisions in the ballroom were tuned to local elections. Anticipating a long-sought victory, Moakley supporters left no room for defeatist sentiment at their gathering...
...Hicks-Moakley contest was actually a valid testing ground for the 1972 Democratic Party program. As a long-standing opponent of busing in Boston schools, Hicks represented the old-style conservatism. Throughout the campaign she failed to clarify her platform beyond "you know where I stand" or "performance counts." Moakley, by contrast, pushed a package of specific Democratic Party reforms...