Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meyer's staunchest opponents, however, have to double about his honesty; the doubt in the minds of Vermont voter stems from the conflicting images of a sincere dissenter and of dangerous radical. The two strains are present even in the comments of Stafford's campaign manger, Earie Bishop, a veteran who has served two terms in the service, and is now a member of the National Guard and wears his uniform when he spends Sundays at home. "Meyer is dangerously naive," Bishop observed, "but I have no reason to doubt his sincerity--and certainly he makes sense in what...
...Vermont voters are torn in two directions; those who favor Meyer are as confused as those who oppose him. "I'm all for Bill Meyer," said one man at the Rutland Eiks Club Saturday night. "He says what he believes, and that's more than you can say for Bob Stafford." A little later, though, when his friends were discussing the issues of the campaign, the same man observed that "I wouldn't recognize Red China in the U.N. In fact, I'd drop a bomb on them right now. America has to become an imperialistic country--has to kill...
...also finds that acute attitudes derived from daily life rarely affect Vermont voters' political preferences. One young married lady, for example, launched into a passionate condemnation of the people she had seen who went to Europe and felt that they were superior to Europeans. "We have no right to do that," she said, "it's as though I insulted my neighbor because her garden is different than mine." But believing this vehemently, she couldn't accept the fact that Meyer feels exactly the same way. She, too, was voting for Stafford...
Meyer has heard these comments on his policy time after time in the last few years, an outsider feels; he is reiterated his ideas again and again and now has little to discuss with new party workers except the prospects the election itself. The opportunity conversing with Vermont voters have not been sufficiently exposed to ideas seems far more attractive to than the necessity of talking with professional Vermont politicians. In the outsider feels that Meyer's unfortunate compromises have not on principles but rather on his chance of associates...
Will Meyer be re-elected? In 1951 won on a fluke, running against a whom even Republican Party regular call "an idiot." In 1960, the campaign much together; Stafford is a slick, read candidate whose words may what the people of Vermont want hear. To win the state, Meyer the Democrats must attract at least per cent of the Republican vote, before counting on most of the Democratic Independents. His chances are less and even...