Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...that the Republican candidate, Si Spaulding, will run well enough (40 per cent or better) to eliminate the Massachusetts Democrat from the national limelight. But Spaulding has a problem: he cannot figure out whether to go to the left to pick up disenchanted liberals or to the right for supporters of arch right winger Col. John McCarthy who lost the primary to Spaulding. Starting out as a strong Administration critic, Spaulding has retreated from his position since the Agnew attacks on Senator Goodell. The switch has not yet attracted the McCarthy voters, however, and may have wiped out any chance...
...front door window of Kennedy's Boston office has about 50 pictures, only two showing the Senator with young people. Over 35 have Kennedy talking with hard hats, the elderly and middle Americans. The slickest is a picture of Kennedy meeting a VEW group under the sign "We support our boys in Vietnam...
RHODE ISLAND: Democratic Senator John O. Pastore is the favorite over Rev. John J. McLaughlin. Both are liberals who support the McGovern Hatfield amendment. Pastore will benefit from the August 21 announcement by the Bishop of Providence that McLaughlin did not have the consent of the church in his bid for office. Rhode Island is a heavily Catholic, traditionally Democratic state, and Pastore should have no trouble...
TENNESSEE: Albert Gore, a maverick liberal from a southern state has fallen behind his Republican opponent, Rep. W. E. Brock. Gore has been a prime target of the Southern strategy and is open to Brock charges of "aiding the enemy" for his support of anti-war legislation...
Byrd was undoubtedly hoping for Republican endorsement of his Senatorial candidacy this year, but the Virginia GOP, feeling its Wheaties after electing its first Governor since Reconstruction, declined to offer its support, and nominated Ray Garland, a Roanoke lawyer...