Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wisconsin, the wise political bettor keeps his wallet shut. It is the state that produced both the La-Follettes and Joe McCarthy, where the traditionally Republican electorate sends liberal Democrats to Con gress, where the Progressive movement is still a living memory, and where George Wallace captured one-third of the Democratic presidential-primary vote...
...important difference between New Hampshire and Wisconsin is in the nature of anti-Johnson sentiment. In contrast to its prevote New Hampshire survey, the current Roper poll shows that most of those supporting McCarthy and Kennedy in Wisconsin are motivated by Viet...
...Wisconsin Democratic organization must have taken the sign literally, for it has allowed Senator McCarthy's student volunteers to share office space and equipment with President Johnson's party regulars...
McCarthy's Madison headquarters is in a rented store front on Mifflin St.--one side of a pie-shaped block facing the Wisconsin State Capitol grounds. Around the block on Hamilton St. is the State Democratic Headquarters. In its window, beneath a framed color photograph of President John F. Kennedy, are rows of bumper stickers reading "LBJ for the U.S.A." This is Johnson territory...
...vote, but I think Nixon can win easily-and he deserves it. He's worked hard." Many G.O.P. leaders, including Rockefeller's partisans, believe Nixon won so easily that he is inexorably moving toward the August Republican nomination. Assured of comparable-and virtually uncontested-triumphs in Wisconsin on April 2 and Nebraska on May 14, he already commands much negotiable loyalty from a powerful array of party workers throughout the nation...