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Although McGovern carried Mayor Daley's bailiwick of Chicago, he did not do well enough there and lost the state. Nixon garnered the Prairie State's 26 electoral votes with 57 per cent of the popular vote. Republican Senator Charles Percy turned back a challenge from Roman Pucinski as expected with 60 per cent of the vote. In perhaps GOP governor Richard Ogilvie and Democratic challenger Daniel Walker were locked in a tight race that would probably not be decided until the woe hours of the morning...
However, Dick Daley, the Massachusetts CREEP press officer added. "You could spend that much and still only run a mediocre Congressional campaign...
Less than 20 per cent of Massachusetts's registered voters are Republicans. About half of the state's voters are independent and according to Daley, they traditionally split evenly between the two major parties...
...Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is not known for missing political opportunities. Thus when reapportionment became necessary, he neatly obliterated the South Side congressional district of Abner Mikva, 46, a respected Democratic independent. Forced to run elsewhere, Mikva chose a newly created, relatively conservative district on Chicago's North Shore. Opposing him is Samuel H. Young, 49, a suburban attorney and political activist in search of his first public office. Young's campaign strategy is simple: to hang the McGovern albatross around Mikva's neck...
...ILLINOIS. The governorship of Illinois is a plum for either party; for a change, in a state where machine politics is a Daley occurrence, two attractive candidates are battling over it. The incumbent, Moderate Republican Richard Ogilvie, 49, is campaigning on a respectable record that includes improved mental health and welfare administration and increased state-local revenue sharing...