Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...folksy cartoon image of Lyndon Johnson. His approach contrasts sharply with the generally aggressive comment of his cartoonist colleagues. "We get enough of the angry stuff," says Berry. He considers himself a "middle-of-the-roader" and prefers to keep his political preferences a secret for the ballot box. "I'm not really mad at anybody," he says. "Satire comes naturally to me, and I prefer to take potshots at anybody and anything...
...process involves a delicate meld of drawing board and bulldozer, budget and ballot box, bludgeon and crystal ball. Technically, every time an enterprising builder tears down an old building and replaces it with a new one, it is urban renewal. But only in recent years has the process been conceived in terms of an overall plan to reshape the city...
...also swept many other Democrats, such as Governor Otto Kerner in Illinois and, most notably, Senate Candidate Robert Kennedy in New York, to victory. Yet perhaps the most fascinating facet of the election was the amazing amount of ticket splitting, as voters chose L.B.J.-and then skipped down the ballot to vote for deserving Republican candidates (see The Senate and The Governors stories). In the end-with the possible exception of salvaging his home state of Ari-zona-all that Goldwater and his devoted band of active amateurs got out of their many months of hard work was the distinction...
...Deep South was a different story. Not since Reconstruction had Georgia, Alabama or Mississippi sent a Republican to Capitol Hill. But in 1964, the only Republican on Mississippi's congressional ballot scored the state's greatest political upset in memory: Prentiss Walker, a hard-shell poultry farmer, ousted William Arthur Winstead, who had been in the House for 22 years. In rural Georgia, Republican Howard ("Bo") Callaway, a slick-campaigning textile millionaire, topped former Lieutenant Governor Garland T. Byrd, who was hurt by Johnson even though he had refused to go even halfway for L.B.J. In Alabama...
What are needed, of course, are not a strong Governor but a strong Governorship. The problem lies with the office, not with the parade of hapless men who have tried to fill it. Fortunately this year's ballot offers the state's voters two opportunities to bolster that office...