Word: smearing
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...majority on Cape Cod, break even in Plymouth County, and then come out of the Democratic strongholds of Weymouth and New Bedford with a large enough majority to offset the Cape, and win. He lost because he did not break even in strongly Republican Plymouth County, where Keith's smear attempts-distributed by local Republicans in "Studds Sheets"-undoubtedly had an effect...
...Social Issue firmly but without hysteria. Adlai Stevenson III pinned an American flag to his lapel, reminded voters of his sponsorship of anti-crime bills, and lined up the chief prosecutor of the Chicago Seven as his co-chairman. By contrast, his opponent, Republican Senator Smith, ran a smear campaign and refused to reject the support of the John Birch Society. California dumped flamboyant ultra-conservative Max Rafferty and George Murphy in favor of Riles Wilson, a soft-spoken moderate, and John Tunney, who campaigned as a moderate liberal. In New York, Conservative James Buckley harped on social discontent...
...Nixon may choose to see the light and recognize that his smear tactics and early '50s political style are no longer viable in the '70s. He may take a more restrained course in preparing for the 1972 race. He may indeed end the war, stop the repression and, most important, do something for the lower middle class which has been hardest hit by the inflation/recession economy...
...venerable John McCormack, who is about to retire as'Speaker of the House, recently accused the Administration of "playing on people's fears and dodging the issues." Said McCormack: "In all of my experience in campaigns, I have never witnessed such wholesale, patently contrived efforts to smear an entire party as that practiced by the Republicans in this campaign...
...edging out Democratic liberal Howard Metzenbaum for the seat occupied by retiring Democratic Senator Stephen Young. Metzenbaum had put together an old-style Democratic coalition to beat astronaut John Glenn in the primary but he seems to have been unable to offset the Taft name and a red smear that surfaced a few weeks ago in the election-this despite liberal Democrat John Gilligan's strong victory in the Governor's race...