Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Studds did not win, though he came much closer than a lot of people expected. His strategy called for him to cut slightly into the Republican majority on Cape Cod, break even in Plymouth County, and then come out of the Democratic strongholds of Weymouth and New Bedford with a...
Studds did, in fact, do very well in New Bedford, the old whaling city of 100,000 which has the second highest unemployment rate in the country. As Studds remarked to a reporter the day after the election, "There's no excuse, in a city like that, for anyone to...
Nevertheless, it is unusual for a peace candidate to do so well in a working class area which has produced some of the most reactionary politicians in the state. Studds worked hard in New Bedford, campaigning tirelessly at factory gates, shopping centers and social clubs, and building an organization that...
Since he was an easy winner in a four-way primary in September, Studds never had the problem with embittered conservative Democrats that brought another more publicized peace candidate, Rev. Robert F. Drinan, so perilously close to defeat. Throughout his campaign, Studds sought to disassociate himself from the image many...
With Cambodia and Kent State and the student strike in May, Studds waited expectantly for the onslaught of student volunteers said to be flocking to congressional campaigns. The tip-off should have come one day in late May, when organizers for Movement for a New Congress (MNC) promised 200 volunteers...