Ultimately , Curley saw an opening in breaking the lock of ethnic politics in the state with the spectre of growing Communist influence .
Curley campaigned largely on appeals to working class anger toward the White Anglo - Saxon Protestant Yankee upper class .
Curley saw an opening in breaking the lock of ethnic politics in the state with the spectre of growing Communist influence .
Curley campaigned largely on appeals to working class anger toward the White Anglo - Saxon Protestant Yankee upper class .