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...famous, has a race this year between two popular, Irish, Democratic vote-getters. There's also a Republican in the race, 34-year-old Alcholic Beverages Control Commission Chairman Howard M. Miller, but in Boston's ethnic, working class 9th, Republicans don't matter very much, and Hicks and Moakley are both treating Miller like a nice little boy who has somehow wandered in where the big guys...
...Moakley has also been an extremely popular votegetter, getting a lot of support from the same groups on which Hicks has built her career--the working class ethnic whites of South Boston and Dorchester. Like Hicks, he is a traditional urban politician. But there the similarities end. Moakley is a liberal who has used his 14 years in the Massachusetts State Legislature and his year on the Boston City Council to work for a number of traditionally liberal causes. His attempts to improve public housing have won particular acclaim from Boston's poor community...
While he is far from a radical, Moakley is trying to paint himself as a populist in this-campaign. Big block letters in bright Irish Green blare his name out from the outside of his second-story campaign headquarters on Union Street at the edge of Boston's North End. His billboards say in stark black-on-white lettering "Joe Moakley vs. Louise Day Hicks" and then, in bright green. "Give 'Em Hell, Joe." He talks about tax reform, about unemployment, about giving the little guy a break. Inside, the headquarters looks like the typical underdog operation--kids are running...
...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...