Word: coattailing
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...cost the party heavily in contests at other levels. What makes this a matter of concern to the G.O.P. is the latest Gallup estimate that regular Republicans now constitute a scant 27% of the U.S. electorate, while Democrats claim 46% and independents 27%. Nevertheless, Nixon can point to considerable coattail strength of his own. Even though he narrowly lost the race for the presidency in 1960, the G.O.P. was able to register a net gain of 21 seats in the House and two in the Senate when he was at the head of the ticket...
...Capitol Hill, Rockefeller promoted "coattail power"-meaning that he can get more Republican Congressmen elected in'November than Nixon. He reminded audiences of Congressmen and Senators that in 1966 many Republicans lost tight races in urban and industrial areas, where Rocky claims great pulling power. On his lapel, the candidate wore a blue-and-white button with the number 218 on it; that, he explained, was the number of Republicans it would take to control the House. "I'm trying to bring home to them that I can help get it," he said...
...qualities that the Republican Party will prize most highly in its 1968 presidential candidate is the ability to pull in nominees for lesser office on Election Day. Last week Michigan's Governor George Romney demonstrated once again his powers of coattail propulsion. Largely through his efforts, an unknown Detroit advertising man, Anthony Licata, 48, won a special election for the Michigan House of Representatives against James P. Hoffa, 26, Jimmy's boy. Beamed Winner Licata: "People promised to vote for me because they wanted to do what the Governor wanted...
Romney faces another test of coattail strength in a second special election for the legislature. In this campaign as well, the Governor is putting his best foot-and sore leg-forward...
What the two Republican Governors had on their minds was the future of the G.O.P. and, more immediately, its strategy for 1968. Romney, by virtue of his 600,000-vote third-term victory and potent coattail strength, is the early-form favorite for the 1968 G.O.P. presidential nomination. Rockefeller, a big upset winner in New York, is eager to at least play a prominent role in choosing the candidate and fashioning the platform...