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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alabama (10 electoral votes): Lyndon Johnson's name is not even on the ballot. A cinch for Goldwater...
District of Columbia (3): With a 50% Negro vote, Johnson is an overwhelming favorite to win when Washington residents cast their first presidential ballot...
...York Democrats enjoy a huge registration edge -normally up wards of half a million -over Republicans. And likely to siphon 150,000 or more votes away from Keating is Henry Paolucci, 43, a history and political science teacher at New Rochelle's Iona College, who will appear on the ballot as the candidate of the Conservative Party, which is angry at Keating for his refusal to endorse Barry Goldwater...
...votes while Democrat Arthur Levitt, running for comptroller, was re-elected by 791,000-a split of 1,774,000. New York, in fact, makes it impossible to vote a straight ticket by pulling a single lever in a voting booth or marking a single X on a paper ballot to choose all candidates, instead requires that voters indicate each choice separately. So do 22 other states.* That makes coattail riding difficult, could mean the difference, for example, to Republican Senatorial Candidates Robert A. Taft in Ohio and George Murphy in California...
...weeks after San Francisco Scott was silent about his decision on Goldwater: he finally issued a weak endorsement of Republican candidates "on all levels," following Scranton's lead. According to state party bylaws, Scott might have been kept off the ballot had he failed to endorse his party's ticket; the successful wooing of state chairman Craig Truax and his organization by Goldwater forces also put pressure on Scott. And the conservative business men who support the party financially were disposed to "harmony." In addition, the sentiments of other statewide candidates and of the majority of Pennsylvania's large Republican...