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A sum mary appraisal at that time: "The Queens Democratic organization is not the all-pow erful political entity of the past. " Margaret Shapiro, "In Ferraro's Queens, Old-Time Patronage Is Still Boss," Washington Post National Weekly Edition, September 10,1984, pp. 10-11 (quotations at p. 10). Ferraro nonetheless won her first House nomination in 1978 without organi zation support. 43 On the Jefferson club: "The club's operation is a model of well-run machine politics. 44 In the early 1980s Esposito's organization still figured regularly in Brook lyn's electoral activity, though its supply of public offices had shrunk: three dependable congressional seats were lost in primaries to insur gents Elizabeth Holtzman (1972) and Stephen J.
26. On assembly seats: Wayne Barrett and Joe Conason, "Meade Esposito's Final Days," Village Voice,Septem ber 17-23, 1980, p. 5. " New York Times, September 27,1981, p. E6. 46 The best general sources on Nassau County are Frank Lynn, "Nassau Republicans March to Beat of Powerful Drumming by Margiotta," New York Times, December 8, 1972, pp. 47, 50; Samuel Kaplan, The Dream Deferred: People, Politics, and Planning in Suburbia (New York: Seabury, 1976), ch. P. I. Share Common Toughness," New York Times, September 29,1980, pp.
RHODE ISLAND (949,723) Direct primaries date back only to 1947 in Rhode Island, Woonsocket j and candidates officially en Cumberland 1I ο dorsed by party committees re Central Falls L- ~) ο I ceive first-place listing on the N. Providence OP^wtucket _ PrnviHonrn Johnston primary ballot and asterisks Cranston beside their names. This used Warwick to be a tight system; until the 1970s all but a handful of Rhode island candidates for the state legis CONN. 1 MASS. S. Senate; when Regular Organization States 25 These rules and patterns do not reveal whether the state has sup ported "traditional party organizations," though they suggest an envi ronment in which such enterprises might flourish.
