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These are battle cries--one welcome and one not so welcome--in the fight for survival of one more member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. For if President Johnson sweeps Pennsylvania on Tuesday, he may well defeat Scott and bring into the Senate Miss Genevieve Blatt, Democratic state Secretary of Internal Affairs...
...Blatt is not one to watch calmly from the sidelines. At every possible occasion, she seeks to tie Scott and Goldwater together, and she proclaims--with some success--"I am comfortable with the top of my ticket, but he is not." A 51-year-old attorney from Pittsburgh, Miss Blatt rose through the state Democratic ranks, until in 1954 she became the first woman elected to statewide office in Pennsylvania. She has been re-elected twice, and in 1962 she was the sole Democratic survivor of a GOP victoryalat put Scranton in Harrisburg. When she did not get state organization...
Pennsylvania: Whatever votes Incumbent Republican Hugh Scott, 63, loses in conservative western Pennsylvania because of his dislike of Goldwater, he may recoup elsewhere for the same reason. But a Johnson sweep and a massive turnout by Negro voters could give the race to Democrat Genevieve Blatt, 51. A slight edge to Scott...
...this delights "Gen" Blatt, who currently holds elective office as Pennsylvania's state secretary of internal affairs. She seems to be running more against Goldwater than against Scott. She has been particularly effective in tarring Goldwater with a trigger-happy nuclear image. Noting that she has never married and is therefore childless, she says of Goldwater: "I don't want to trust the safety of my nieces and nephews or your sons and daughters and husbands to a man like that...
Most Pennsylvania observers rate Scott and Blatt dead even-in a race that Scott would win hands down if it weren't for Barry...