Word: california
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Biggest Democratic margin: California's Governor-elect Brown, 1,012,000. Biggest Republican margin: New York's Governor-elect Rockefeller...
...toward laying to rest the notion of Roman Catholicism as a ruinous national political liability. Even in heavily Catholic Massachusetts, Senator Jack Kennedy's huge 869,000-vote plurality clearly cut across all religious lines. In Pennsylvania Democrat David Lawrence became the first Catholic Governor in history. In California Catholic Pat Brown was elected Governor by a landslide. And in Minnesota, where Catholicism had long been considered a fatal handicap outside St. Paul and Minneapolis, Catholic Eugene McCarthy beat Republican Senator Edward Thye, a Lutheran (with a Catholic wife), by 57,000 votes. In New York, where the Catholic...
Neglected by the party leader in the White House, Republican organization fell almost completely apart while Democrats put together smooth-working machines in state after state. In California, Indiana and Utah, Republican factions spent more time fighting each other than fighting Democrats. But in Ohio Democrat Di Salle, beaten by O'Neill by 428,000 votes in 1956, went to work with State Chairman William Coleman, spent two years building up an effective organization, during the campaign held at least seven seminars in every congressional district to teach workers the best vote-hunting techniques. In Minnesota Democratic Representative Eugene...
...Republican presidential nomination in 1960. On Nov. 5 he could look over his shoulder and see a red-hot potential contender in the person of New York's Governor-elect Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, who ran up a sensational 557,000-vote win in Democratic territory even as California Republicans-including a Nixon protege for attorney general-were getting shredded all across the board...
...California's Pat Brown. By winning by 1,012,000 votes over Bill Knowland, Brown becomes a full-fledged presidential possibility, although he is reportedly happy at thoughts of becoming Vice President. Brown's problem: keeping a wary eye on National Committeeman Paul Ziffren and Senator-elect Clair Engle, both longtime supporters of Adlai Stevenson...