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Sinclair’s opponent in the general election would be acting governor Frank Merriam, a Republican who had endured a summer of unrest as new labor laws led to strikes that were designed to test ...
Mar 1, 2016 · With the aid of a major (and pioneering) negative campaign, including Hollywood-produced attacks against Sinclair, Merriam won the 1934 election. That result, however, was not the end of the story.
FDR couldn’t afford the possibility that Sinclair would cost the Democrats seats in Congress, so he negotiated with Sinclair’s Republican opponent. At a time when all signs pointed toward a historic Democratic landslide in the midterm election, producing filibuster-proof majorities for the New Deal in both houses of Congress, this explanation stretched credibility.
The “perennial Socialist party candidate for statewide office,” Sinclair’s astounding success in the Democratic primary, in which he won the nomination with more votes than any other primary election candidate in California history, led to perhaps the first big “hit campaign” of modern politics, spearheaded in no small part by the Hollywood studios, and in particular, MGM, Thalberg ...
Even so the August 28 primary election results came as a surprise, not because Sinclair won but because of the scale of support. He had captured the Democratic nomination with more than 436,000 votes, which was more than any primary election candidate in California history, more than all of his Democratic opponents combined, and more than the Republican he would face in November, incumbent ...
Jan 26, 2016 · Sinclair defeated William G. McAdoo for the Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination in the 1934 California primary election. McAdoo was the male Hillary Clinton of his era: Woodrow Wilson’s son-in-law, a wealthy Wall Street lawyer, and the ultimate Party insider. Sinclair’s candidacy had several obvious liabilities.
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Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, fourth baronet and first Viscount Thurso of Ulbster, was born in London on 22 October 1890. Educated at Eton, he attended Sandhurst, and became a regular soldier in 1910 with the 2nd Life Guards. Serving with distinction on the Western Front throughout the Great War, he was Winston Churchill’s second-in ...
