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...number of citizens who make one of these splinter candidates their first choice on the ballot will provide a rough estimate of the amount of discontent with the traditional patterns of Cambridge politics: it is a total which political veterans-especially the present City Councilors-will probably be watching closely. At the moment, however, it does not seem that the impact of the rent control issue will be great. There has been councilor-which would amount to a minor relatively little agitation over rent control during the council campaign: registration is actually about 2000 less than in 1967, indicating that...
...eliminated. Likely as not, those ballots-however many of them are thus marked-will ultimately end up in the pile of Barbara Ackerman, (CCA), one of the current council's strongest supporters of rent control. Unless the vote for splinter control candidates is unexpectedly strong, Ackermann's base of "number ones" among more liberal City voters should give her more than enough to make it on the council again...
...position may hurt them a little, Walter J. Sullivan (Ind.) and Edward A. Crane '35 (CCA) will probably top the ticket again and win election on the first round with votes from their respective bases among lower-income Irish and more affluent Irish. Vellucci will sweep up East Cambridge "number ones," add a few votes from Sullivan's surplus, get some more when weaker Italian and Portuguese candidates are eliminated, and make it into the winner's circle after a couple of days of counting the vote...
Incumbent Thomas W. Danchy (Ind.) may also sweep into office on the surplus of Sullivan (a relative), if he hasn't already garnered enough "number ones" to win from his own North Cambridge base. Thomas H. D. Mahoney (CCA) should also win re-election with his "number ones" from the same base as Crane and a scattering of elderly votes from throughout the City...
...this time taking half hour radio spots over local radio, and talking himself hoarse to voters at rallies and over the telephone. Hayes may make it again this time, but it will be close; if he fails, Leonard J. Russell (Ind.)-who got a respectable total of 9-10 "number ones" last time-seems as good a bet as any to take his place...