Word: backlashing
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...Keith's vote-getting virtues have a treacherous potential for turning into liabilities. This year he decided to make youth and "dynamic leadership" his selling points. But the backlash from older voters, repulsed at seeing the middle-aged Rolvaag displaced by his ambitious lieutenant governor, largely accounts for Keith's failure...
...factor in U.S. race relations and politics that has come to be known as backlash is more than merely the reaction of some white people to Negro rioting or cries of "black power." The attitude of many white Americans is influenced by the belief that the Negro has made great gains in a relatively short time, and that he now would do better to stop agitating and consolidate what he has won. At the same time, much of the new black militancy is a result of frustration over what many Negroes consider their snail's pace of progress. Beneath...
...work, television has accentuated the candidate's need to campaign in the flesh, especially at the level of the congressional district and below. The cost of paid TV spots often makes them a prohibitive luxury until the final weeks of a campaign. Yet in something of a TV backlash, the very fact that television has made political performers commonplace makes it harder for candidates to attract crowds...
...Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's stringent new guidelines for school desegregation received a sympathetic hearing only from other Southerners. But Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has now joined in the criticism of HEW, apparently in the belief that continued prodding for integration anywhere will succor a white backlash everywhere. The result of Mansfield's statement that the department is pushing integration "too fast" can only be to slow down the pace of school desegregation in the South, -- a pace that is and has always been unconscionably slow...
...clear that Wallace is hoping for another eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation with the federal government. And it is equally clear that Senator Mansfield, in this election year, does not want to see more intra-party feuding over integration. Wary of a white backlash vote, Mansfield is not about to defend federal integration requirements in the face of warnings by Wallace that, "The people of this nation will not long tolerate this trifling with the safety and security of their children...