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...Democratic parties in the state--no one knows what will happen, though the traditional party of Gov. Lester Maddox might reconstitute itself after November as a grass roots Wallacite party. A biracial coalition of white urban liberals like Charles Longstreet Weltner from progressive Altanta and black community leader state Rep. Julian Bond comprise the new party. Old-style moderates like former Gov. Carl Sanders and Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen will soon have to make a decision on which party--the redneck Maddox majority or the chronic minority liberals--they will go with...
...aftermath of Chicago much of the McCarthy organization -- particularly in the academic community and the Republicans and Independents who joined the party for McCarthy--want to leave the party. State McCarthy leaders Jerry Grossman, Paul Counihan, and state Rep. Irving Fishman should be watched for further developments on the new left reform organization...
...Humphrey will be swept under in the Nixon landslide. Young liberals like Dick Celeste of Cleveland formerly of the Peace Corps are hoping to build "a tangible issue orientation" within the party. From that base they might work out to local and then state-wide candidate contests. Gilligan, U.S. Rep. Charles Vanik, former astronaut John Glenn, and black Humphreyite Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes all may play prominent roles in a liberal-based party move to retake the state from a decade of GOP control...
...what was expected to be a very close race, early McCarthy backer, State Rep. Joseph Bradley, was defeated by a 2-1 margin in the third district Democratic contest. Incumbent Phillip J. Philbin, a hawk until very recently, beat Bradley in a large new district. Philbin's old district was put into other districts after court-ordered redistricting...
...Rep. Edward P. Boland, running for renomination for his ninth term, defeated former Springfield mayor Charles V. Ryan, a liberal in the second congressional district Democratic race. Boland received aid in his campaign from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass), his first campaigning since his brother's assasination...