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...York, most non-Republicans cast their votes for both Charles E. Goodell, the liberal Republican incumbent whom Agnew had blasted as "the Christene Jorgenson" of the party, and Democrat Rep. Richard L. Ottinger. Conservative James L. Buckley, who was supported by the Administration, won with only 38 per cent of the vote...
...summer, the Republican national committee refused to name Massachusetts as one of its 16 target districts-perhaps because of Senatorial candidate Spaulding's refusal to too the Nixon line on the war-and consequently no Republican money was sent into Boston for the Spaulding election campaign. Both Nixon and Agnew were asked not to campaign in the state...
...feared, liberals in New York split their votes between incumbent liberal Republican Charles Goodell and Democrat Richard Ottinger yesterday, there by handing a plurality to Conservative candidate James L. Buckley. Goodell had been strongly attacked by Agnew during the campaign-and the Administration made little secret of their preference for Buckley in the race. Projected returns around midnight predicted that Buckley would get 38 per cent to Ottinger's 37, with Goodell running a poor third...
Four sparsely populated Western states with Democratic Senators were the special targets of Nixon-Agnew assaults. In all four the voters returned the incumbents to office with convincing majorities. Sen. Howard Cannon of Nevada, Sen. Quentin Burdick of North Dakota, Sen. Gale McGee of Wyoming, and Sen. Frank Moss of Utah all won with better than 55 per cent...
Despite the traditional Republicans complexion of these states and their votes for President Nixon in 1968, the Nixon-Agnew journeys into the West failed to sway the electorate who saw them as outsiders trying to influence local politics...