Word: democratic
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...Oklahoma, Republican Henry Bellmon captured the governorship by a hefty margin, becoming the first G.O.P. Governor in the state's history. In Kentucky, Republican Senator Thruston B. Morton decisively defeated Democrat Wilson W. Wyatt in one of 1962's most meaningful political battles. It was an uncompromising clash, without any me-too touches to blur the issues: Morton, a former G.O.P. National Chairman, a hard-punching conservative; Wyatt, a founder of Americans for Democratic Action, one of the last of those who might be described as an unmistakable left-winger. The New Frontier made Morton's defeat...
...inept Richard D. Kennedy to win an at-large seat. Utah unveiled a bright newcomer in Sherman P. Lloyd, 48, a talented Utah state senator, who clobbered Liberal Bruce Jenkins. Florida's Ed Gurney appeared attractive on television, ran as a genuine conservative to win over Democrat John Sutton in the Cape Canaveral area...
...house of representatives. Republican factionalism spilled over into the race to fill the Senate seat of the late Styles Bridges. In the primary, Widow Doloris Bridges fought bitterly before losing to able U.S. Representative Perkins Bass who ended up with so little support that he lost last week to Democrat Thomas Mclntyre, 47, former mayor of Laconia...
...Democratic Dander. But the real shocker came in Vermont. There, unless a recount changes the result, a Democrat was elected Governor for the first time in 108 years. He was State Representative Philip H. Hoff, 38, who made a strong campaign plea for Vermonters to bring an end to decades of "one-party government." His opponent, Governor F. Ray Keyser, 35, was too conservative even for Vermont tastes. And Hoff was helped by an attractive family that campaigned enthusiastically for him-one of his four daughters actually stomped on Keyser's foot in a painful display of partisanship...
Amid the bulletins that torrented forth, the most astonishing was that Democrat Lister Hill, veteran of 25 years in the U.S. Senate, was running behind his Republican opponent, a political novice named James D. Martin. And, of all places, in Alabama-where no Republican had come within miles of winning major office since Reconstruction...