tinman64
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« on: January 05, 2005, 08:38:42 PM » |
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Living in the Bay Area at the time of the 76 election, I can say that it wasn't the liberal bastion then that it is today. Marin, San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties leaned GOP. San Francisco itself had Republican enclaves that are now all gone. Then-Mayor George Moscone was perhaps the first true liberal mayor of SF. His predecessor, Alioto, was a conservative Democrat, and prior to him, Mayor George Christopher was a Republican.
Carter carried San Francisco, but did poorly there for a Democrat. As I recall, there was some discussion of a sympathy vote materializing for Ford in SF, as an assassination attempt happened there the previous year.
In addition, there were concerns about voting machines. News reports in San Francisco after the election called attention to this. It was stated that perhaps thousands of Carter voters in the Bay Area pushed the wrong voting lever, voting instead for Lester Maddox. This was due to the proximity of the Maddox lever to the Carter lever (both seemed to be in Carter's box.)
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