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...breadth of Cavanagh's support is clearly a result of his spectacular record in office. After his upset victory four years ago over incumbent Louis Miriani, Cavanagh did not owe any political favors and was able to frame both definitions and solutions of the city's problems. He began by slapping an income tax on everyone who lived or worked in the city, and in four years the city has been able to turn a large deficit into a surplus, to increase municipal services, raise salaries (police salaries went up 25 per cent), and lower the property tax, Cavanagh...
...Cavanagh's popularity and his strength lead to only one conclusion: that he wishes to seek higher office in Michigan. He is probably more interested in the Senate than in the Governorship, but both of the state's seats are held by Democrats. (Detroit municipal officers are nonpartisan, but Cavanagh is known to be a Democrat.) Senator Philip Hart, who is 51 and was reelected last year by 900,000 votes, is not about to retire, but the other seat, held by 70-year-old Pat McNamara might be up for grabs...
Only if Williams does not run for Governor will Cavanagh have an open avenue. But in the middle of the avenue will be standing lion-like George Romney, his graying temples glinting in the sunlight. Romney will be a tough opponent, but not as unbeatable as metaphor and newsmagazine suggest...
That is where Mayor Cavanagh comes in. If Williams has the affection of the Michigan Democratic rank and file, Cavanagh probably has more strength with the weakly motivated center of the electorate. A disproportionate number of such voters are young, and for them the 37-year-old Cavanagh has great appeal. They associate him with his record as mayor, while they tend to identify Williams with the 1958 recession and the hatchet job he took from the Republican legislature and newspapers...
...Cavanagh is to get through to these weakly affiliated voters, he must convince them that he can do what Romney has been largely unsuccessful at: breaking the deadlocks that have tied up Michigan politics since the 1940's. Michigan governors, for example, have been talking about reforming the state's regressive tax structure for eight years...