Word: democratic
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...contest for a state senate seat. In South Carolina, Newspaperman William D. Workman Jr., who joined the Republican Party only a year ago, gathered 43% of the votes for U.S. Senator in a race against Incumbent Olin Johnston. In the Texas gubernatorial contest, Republican Jack Cox lost to Democrat John B. Connally, former Navy Secretary in the Kennedy Administration, but came closer to winning than any G.O.P. candidate for Governor of Texas had done since Reconstruction...
...often considered bad taste to talk about election results in racial or religious terms. Yet race and or religion are facts of political life. In New York, Irish Catholics held power for a long while. Then Italian Catholics made their move. Last summer Democratic Pollster Lou Harris urged that U.S. Attorney Robert Morgenthau be nominated for Governor against Nelson Rockefeller, if only because he could win what Harris considered the Jewish bloc vote. Harris was on the right track. As weak a candidate as Morgenthau turned out to be, he nevertheless held Rocky's plurality below all expectations...
Given the treat of electing two Senators at once, Idaho cannily sent a liberal Democrat back to Washington in the company of a conservative Republican. Boyish Democratic Senator Frank Church, 38, won a second term. Greying Republican Len Jordan, 63, who was appointed to the Senate after the death last September of venerable fellow Republican Henry Dworshak, won a full term by defeating Gracie Pfost, a five-term Congresswoman and the Queen Bee of Idaho politics. But Idaho eyes were really centered on the campaign for Governor, in which Democrat Vernon K. Smith came out for legalized gambling...
...last two weeks of the campaign. Hoosiers heard little else on radio and television stations. That campaign song was the climactic effort by Democrat Birch Bayh, 34, to unseat three-term Republican Senator Homer Capehart, 65. And unseated Homer was. But it was less because of Bayh's jumpy theme-tune than because Capehart looked, talked and acted like an old codger...
Because of his turn-of-the-century conservatism and his great bulk (247 Ibs), Republican Benjamin Franklin Dillingham II, 46, is devastatingly described as "a fat old young man." Running for the Senate seat vacated by retiring Democrat Oren Long, Dillingham never had a chance against Representative Daniel Inouye, 38, slum child, war hero, first U.S. Congressman of Japanese descent, New Frontiersman ("To be President-Kennedy's rubber stamp is an honor") and by far Hawaii's top vote-getter. If there had been any doubt, it vanished when the Honolulu Advertiser, of which the Dillingham family owns...