This is a campaign that must be won if we are going to move this country ahead.
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My name is Kennedy and I have come to ask your support.
We are electing on Tuesday, not a committee, not a protégé, not a rescue squad; we are electing a President of the United States.
Better the occasional faults of a government living in the spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
We are not electing a committee next Tuesday; we are electing a President of the United States.
Let me just say the three things that we stand for in making up your judgment.
As Maine goes, so goes Vermont, and I hope so goes the Nation.
I come here in the last 48 hours of this campaign to the greatest rally that we have had in this entire campaign, right here in this city.
We are going to try to win this election on Tuesday, and then make this election worth winning by by doing something for our country.
This campaign really is fought over one issue, and it is an issue which I believe importantly affects the welfare of this country.
I come to Maine and ask your help in doing that.
In Connecticut on Tuesday, our work is finished, and your work begins. I ask you to support us.
We are running as the candidates who believe in progress for our country.
The only thing I am responsible for is moving him out of office on Tuesday, November 8.
I think the tide is rising in Connecticut that is just going to wash him all the way out.
What great issue, what great stream of history, has he associated himself with in the changing years of the 1960's?
Maine and the country have a very clear choice on Tuesday.