Talk:James L. Buckley

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he graduated in 1943 and joined the navy in 1942 .. this needs to be clarified - during the war, a lot of people signed up before finishing school, then entered the service once they had graudated. Rick K 20:50, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] "Draft Buckley" and Jesse Helms

Is there a source for the information about Jesse Helms and the 1976 convention? I had never heard this. Indeed, Jesse Helms' support in the 1976 primary in North Carolina is generally credited with keeping Reagan's campaign going into the convention. (See the Wikipedia entry for Jesse Helms.) The statement about "Draft Buckley" may thus need to be clarified (or even removed).

Appropriate citations added. I also added a website link for the hypercurious -- NBC news transcript from 1976: http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1976-8/1976-08-11-NBC-2.html

"(Studio) Reagan forces say Buckley's move not stop-Ford plot by their people. North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms says he urged Buckley to enter race, but without Reagan's knowledge."

Jkp1187 16:14, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Last Senator not representing a major party"

Is this accurate? Isn't Jim Jeffords "not reprsenting a major party". (True, JLB was elected as a "Conservative", but he clearly had very strong ties to GOP....and since Jeffords bolted the GOP, but did NOT switch to Democratic Party, arguably he was more 'independent'.) Thoughts? Jkp1187 16:17, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spliting the liberal vote?

There is some evidence that Buckley did not really split the liberal vote. =Rather, according to Buckley, a NY Post poll after the election showed that Buckley received a large portion of the blue colar vote, which in the context of the time was socially conservative (for example, middle aged union members not happy with the counter culture). Goodell, the Republican said that he did not drop out of the race because much of his support came from Republicans who otherwise would have voted for Buckley. Buckley recounted this in his recent oral history. Back in college (I attended school in New York in the late 1980s) one of my poli-sci professors felt that Buckley would have won a two way race. --Amcalabrese 16:54, 24 April 2007 (UTC)