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Spiro ("Ted") Agnew, the fifth Republican Governor Maryland has had, said of the opposition's legislative leader: "One of the most skillful I've ever seen, completely reliable and willing to meet a problem." For his part, House Speaker Marvin Mandel allowed: "We've worked together well. The Governor has made every effort to cooperate...
...bloc voting in the classic pattern. But even among Negroes, the racial lines did not always hold, and Stokely Carmichael's retrograde, black-power appeal clearly upset nearly as many Negroes as whites. In Baltimore, 83% of the Negro vote went to Republican (and "ethnic" Greek) Spiro Agnew for Governor-though only two years ago it had gone equally heavily along its traditional Democratic lines for Lyndon Johnson. And though Edward Brooke drew the small Negro vote in his race for Massachusetts Senator, he won with white votes and was careful not to present himself as a Negro candidate...
...Winthrop Rockefeller became the first Republican to win Arkansas' governorship by capturing 80% of the Negro vote?which turned out to be his margin of victory. South Carolina Democrat Ernest ("Fritz") Rollings' 10,000-vote margin for a U.S. Senate seat came mostly from Negro votes. In Maryland, Republican Agnew beat Mahoney on the votes of poor Negroes, upper-income Jews and Government workers from nearby Washington...
...incumbent regime, since Shafer had served for four years as Lieutenant Governor in the popular ad ministration of outgoing Governor Scranton. Indeed, Pennsylvania voters' reaffirmation was vigorous enough to regain Republican control of both houses of the legislature by a hair. In Maryland, even though Republican Ted Agnew came from behind to defeat Segregationist George Mahoney in the gubernatorial campaign, voters also seemed content with the status quo, re-electing Democrats to all other statewide offices and keeping the state legislature lopsidedly Democratic...
Doubtful Honors. But did they know? The predictions so confidently made were all too often wrong. Shortly after the polls closed in Maryland, CBS named Democrat George P. Mahoney the new Governor; hours later it became embarrassingly clear that the winner was Republican Spiro Agnew. ABC declared Thomas Lusk the winner in the New Mexico gubernatorial race; later the network had to retract when Lusk lost. NBC earned the doubtful honor of being first to announce that Democrat Lester Maddox had won the race for Governor of Georgia. After the other networks made the same mistake, a beaming Maddox...