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...vote out of 102,066. In the 1916 presidential election, Charles Evans Hughes seemed a certain winner until returns from California two days later gave Woodrow Wilson the state by some 4,000 votes out of the nearly 1,000,000 cast. Less than one vote per precinct could have swung the election to Hughes. In 1960, John Kennedy beat Nixon by only 112,803 popular votes out of 68.8 million. Less than one vote per precinct would have given Nixon a popular victory...
...front of City Hall, 2,000 picketing policemen yelled "Blue power!" and carried signs exhorting "Dump Lindsay" and "We Want Daley." Hundreds more paraded in front of 20 of the city's 79 precinct stations. Until their union ended the practice at week's end, as many as 3,000 men, one-fifth of the force scheduled for duty, reported "sick" each day with a fictitious strain of Asian flu. Cops on duty watched benignly as motorists left their cars in bus stops and no-parking zones. Minor complaints were simply ignored, and traffic became badly snarled. Possibly...
...order to bring about a new type of politics one must do more than mouth vague generalities, one must seize the decision-making process and consciously change it. In some states that means building up--precinct by precinct--an organization in order to wrest control. Then turn around and render it useless by changing the state election laws to permit open primaries in the place of party nominating conventions...
...stronger parallel structure within the party as in California--or give up and form a new party. This hasn't been very effective in the past because liberals, whether because of their suburban anti-partisan phobia or for some other reason, continually shy away from the drudgery of precinct-leaderdom. In Pennsylvania and New York significant reform groups have risen many times, but they never worked long enough to bring about a permanent change in the style of their state's politics...
Problems of building effective coalitions, maintaining one's philosophical commitment to the New Politics, maintaining liberal participation in precinct level drudgery in machine states, and dealing with the polarized Southern parties are the main problems faced by Gore, Lowenstein, Julian Bond, and their nascent New Democratic Coalition. They have forty-seven months to solve them