Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tied with 109 seats each. The Progressive Conservatives, led by Robert Stanfield, had won nearly all their seats in English-speaking provinces; Trudeau's Liberals were elected principally in French-speaking Quebec. The rest were divided among the socialist-oriented New Democratic Party (30), the right-wing populist Social Credit Party (14) and independents (2). As the Toronto Sun headlined the morning after the election: WHAT A MESS...
Long before he became involved in the McGovern campaign, Roberts had been meeting with several of his junior faculty colleagues, including Doris Kearns, in a discussion group trying to put together a populist political strategy. The members of the seminar had decided that a populist campaign for the presidency would begin with a series of detailed position papers and policy statements early in the campaign. They believed that as the populist candidate spoke publicly on the practical implementation of his new proposals, he would develop a confidence which would be apparent to voters. He would know, for example, just what...
McGovern never developed such confidence, and as a result he made the very error which the faculty study group on populist strategy had decided would be most disastrous for a left-leaning Democrat--he built a constituency of moral individuals who shared his outrage about the war, but had nothing new or persuasive to say about domestic issues...
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...
Probably the only issue which Newfield and Greenfield feel should be a component of a 1972 populist strategy, that McGovern plays down, is crime in the street. While addressing blue-collar audiences, McGovern buries the issue into the middle of his speech. He refers to drugs and crime only when discussing ways the U.S. could use the $7 billion it spends each year on the war in Vietnam. Yet crime control is certainly not a major component of a populist program. Economic issues are, and McGovern certainly does deal with these questions...