Word: procaccinos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John V. Lindsay-tacking the support of either major political party-won his bid for re-election as Mayor of New York yesterday. Running on the Liberal and Independent tickets, he defeated Democrat Mario Procaccino and Republican-Conservative John Marchi...
...WCBS-New York projection based on half of the returns last night predicted that Lindsay would get 12 percent of the final vote. Procaccino 34 per cent, and Marchi...
Projected estimates also showed that the Mayor was outpolling Procaccino among registered Democrats and nearly outpolling Marchi among Republicans. The all-important Jewish vote was running about 44 per cent each for Lindsay and Procaccino...
...effect of these desertions has been greater on the Democrats. Seven of nine New York voters are Democrats, and the liberal majority of these seem to have revolted against Procaccino, thereby gutting the party organization which traditionally has run New York...
While Lindsay goes into today's election the front-runner, he was considered the underdog at the campaign's outset. Procaccino, who won the Democratic primary with less than a third of the vote against four liberals-Former Mayor Robert Wagner. Badillo, Norman Mailer and Congressman James Schener-saw his initial strength erode quickly over the summer and fall. Political columnists blame his apparent decline on his failure to make any reconciliatory gesture to his party's disaffected middle-class liberals, his inability to branch out beyond the law-and-order issue, and his "hot" image in the recent three...