Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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California: Liberal Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight, 61, hitherto a favorite of California Democrats, paid the price for a hopelessly crippled G.O.P. campaign, lost to conservative Democratic Congressman Clair Engle...
...West Virginia's Fourth District, onetime Adlai Stevenson Campaign Aide Ken Hechler defeated 83-year-old Dr. Will E. Neal, one of whose boasts was that he had delivered almost half of his constituents...
Arizona: Riding in Senator Barry Goldwater's wake. Republicans turned a predicted loss into an unexpected gain, elected Republican Paul Fannin, 51, over State Attorney General Robert Morrison, whose youthful jail term (for bad checks) got plenty of campaign publicity...
Oregon: In campaign's last minute, U.S. Senator Wayne Morse stuck his new (since 1955) Democratic nose in the governorship race to gig Republican Mark Hatfield by dredging up an ancient traffic charge and making Hatfield the villain. Until then, the Democratic candidate, Robert D. Holmes, was the predicted winner of a close election. In what was rated as a vote of outrage against Busybody Morse, Republican Hatfield took the statehouse...
Wisconsin: The indefatigably confident campaign of Democratic State Senator Gaylord A. Nelson, 42, caught fire in a state whose Republicans have despaired since losing Joe McCarthy's U.S. Senate seat last year to Democrat Bill Proxmire. Probably helped by Proxmire's thumping re-election victory, Nelson unseated once-popular Republican Incumbent Vernon W. Thompson...