Word: moakley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected, Hicks did partly in Boston's black wards (8, 9, 12 and 14) but outpolled Moakley is Ward 7-both candidates' home district--by 800 of 8000 votes...
...TASK BEFORE THE MOAKLEY people is enormous: they've got to persuade people who for years have walked into a voting booth and automatically pulled the Democratic lever that (a) there are other candidates on the ballot and (b) voting for an Independent is not a mortal sin. To do this, Moakley volunteers have canvassed the district and plan to be at every poll passing out information tomorrow...
...district, replaced by seven suburbs to Boston's south. This introduces a new facet to 9th District politics: Republicans. This is where Miller will get most of his support. Miller, ironically enough, is the most liberal candidate in the race, and has been attacking both Hicks and Moakley as products of the old politics who are owned by traditional political bosses...
...district could be the black vote in Roxbury and the South End. Moakley should outpoll Hicks here. Indeed, the most recent poll in The Boston Globe shows Moakley leading Hicks by 41 to 32 per cent, with 11 per cent going to Miller...
...event, it should be an interesting night tonight at the G and G delicatessen in Dorchester, the traditional election eve gathering place for Boston Democrats. The Hicks-Moakley race is tearing apart a lot of traditional political alignments in Boston, and the 9th District, Boston's ethnic showplace, might never be the same...