Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unfortunate that the American political system practically compels men like Muskie in Maine, Ribicoff in Connecticut, MacFarland in Arizona, and Johnson in Colorado--who won their elections largely on personal popularity--to engage in "patronage." Yet "patronage" is too harsh a word for honesty; the governors-elect promised harmonious and progressive government, and the only place where a chief executive can look to find the type of men who can help him in this objective is in his party ranks...
Holborn guessed right in all but one of the gubernatorial races, missing only Idaho. "I was wrong, though," he said, "In giving the Democrats 245-255 seats in the House. Expected Democratic gains in the Mountain states did not materialize." He also missed on three Senate races, in Ohio, Colorado, and Iowa. The New Jersey and Oregon races were still indefinite...
...Colorado...
Wyoming gave Democratic candidate Joseph O'Mahoney a slight lead over William Harrison, but the returns were indecisive. In Colorado Gordon Allcott was barely ahead of John Carroll...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of Government, frowned on GOP rallies, commenting that "if the trends continue pro-Republican in Oregon, Colorado, and Montana" the campaign Nixon stands for the which Eisenhower endorses, is effective. This is a hell of a note for the Republic...