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...other candidate. In both Florida and North Carolina, blacks had an added incentive to support Carter. His major opponent was George Wallace, whose 1960s cry of "segregation forever" had stamped him an implacable racist, despite his disclaimers. But in Massachusetts, blacks could choose from among Fred Harris, Sargent Shriver, Milton Shapp, Morris Udall and Henry Jackson, whose civil rights records range from good to excellent. Instead, they supported Jimmy Carter...
...made by the Democratic voters and non-voters in this allegedly progressive commonwealth. That they did not vote for Birch Bayh is forgiveable; that the Democratic conservatives outpolled the liberals by close to a 60 to 40 per cent margin is not. Between them, Bayh, Harris, Udall, Shriver and Shapp received 37.9 per cent of the vote in a state in which Democrats usually favor the liberals by 20 percentage points. Fifty-eight per cent of the vote went to Messrs. Jackson, Wallace, Carter and Ms. McCormack, a relative shift of 30 to 40 per cent to the right, depending...
...Democrat in his or her right political mind could afford to speak out continually for the truly forgotten people. Nelson Rockefeller was vilified for not paying taxes like the rest of us, but not even Fred Harris talked about conditions at Attica. Only Birch Bayh and Sargent Shriver talked straightforwardly and consistently about helping black people, and between them they garnered 12.9 per cent of the vote...
UDALL. Together with his second-place finish in New Hampshire, his strong showing in Massachusetts made him the clear favorite among the liberals. As a result, Birch Bayh effectively dropped out of the race. The other liberal candidates-Fred Harris, Sargent Shriver and Milton Shapp-stayed in the running for the present but no longer have realistic expectations of winning many delegates. Even though the liberals seemed to be coalescing around Udall, Idaho Senator Frank Church still planned to enter some of the later primaries, with the goal of picking up enough votes to become a force at the convention...
...have already begun to coalesce around Udall's campaign. Says Ethan Geto, one of Bayh's New York leaders: "Based on some early soundings, the majority sentiment [among Bayh's delegate slates] so far is clearly for Mo Udall." Other liberals are planning to abandon Sargent Shriver and Senator Frank Church -due to enter the presidential race next week-to go with Udall. Having grabbed the liberal banner and proclaimed himself "the only horse to ride," Udall has already started to concentrate his efforts on wooing the minorities and the more conservative blue-collar and labor Democrats...