For the young and the burnt:
Before you read, consider that Clinton’s NH Chair Bill Shaheen put
Carter to the top of the list in NH in 1980.Double D is linked to CSP who endorsed Obama, late.
Maybe the Dems should pillage the elephant as a mascot, in light of this long term grudge-a-palooza.
Maybe, grudge-a-palookaville.
Time Mag Monday, Mar. 10, 1980
Last September, early in the draft-Teddy boom, a Boston Globe poll showed Kennedy leading Carter in New Hampshire by better than 2 to 1. But when the Senator became an announced candidate, he plummeted in New Hampshire as elsewhere in the country. Voters questioned his stands on issues, wondered over his inept campaigning and brought up old doubts about Chappaquiddick. On the weekend before primary day, Kennedy threw everything and everyone into the campaign, including 1,500 volunteers who rang countless doorbells and phones to summon supporters to the polls. He managed only to narrow the margin to 11%, enough for him to keep on campaigning, but still an embarrassing defeat by most standards.
Wailed Dudley Dudley, who headed the original Kennedy write-in campaign in New Hampshire: “It was the flag. People kept saying that in a time of crisis, they had to support the President.” Kennedy carried no major segment of New Hampshire Democrats, except the young. He lost the blue-collar vote, which he considered one of his basic constituencies. He lost the most heavily Catholic precincts, in part because he favors federal financing of abortion for poor women when medically necessary. He lost all of New Hampshire’s largest cities except Dover and Portsmouth, where he was in agreement with the local opposition to construction of the nearby Seabrook nuclear power plant. And worse prospects lie ahead. After this week’s primary in his home state of Massachusetts, Kennedy faces three contests on March 11 in Carter’s Southern stronghold:
Jan. 8, 07 NYTimes
Dudley’s first name was inherited from her grandmother’s maiden name, and she later married a man whose last name is Dudley, according to the Associated Press.
Shea-Porter, a social worker who scored a major upset last November over two-term Republican Rep. Jeb Bradley, has a reputation as a fervent liberal activist from her efforts on numerous causes, including opposition to the war in Iraq. And her hiring of Dudley will hardly diminish that persona.
Dudley during the 1970s gained a national reputation as a grass-roots activist. This stemmed in part from her leadership, while serving in the state House, of a successful challenge to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis’ effort to build an oil refinery near New Hampshire’s coastline, and her opposition to a controversial nuclear power plant project in Seabrook, N.H.
Dudley led the charge in New Hampshire for Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s ultimately unsuccessful challenge to President Jimmy Carter for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
