The George Wallace Presidential campaign was “significantly free of anti-Semitism despite the known presence of anti-Semites in the Wallace camp.” the American Jewish Committee reported yesterday. Milton Ellerin, who directs the organization’s trends analysis division which conducted the study, attributed the lack of anti-Semitism to four factors:
“The American voter is too sophisticated today to be influenced by racist material.” The anti-Semites who supported Wallace did not want to alienate potential supporters who would regard with “disfavor…dissemination of anti-Semitic or racist material. The very astute Alabama professional politicians who ran the Wallace campaign” protected the former Governor’s image by suppressing anti-Semitic and racist bigotry. “In the main, the 1968 campaign was more concerned with men than issues.”
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