Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party and a presidential candidate from another. Particularly in the South and West, Richard Nixon's coattails were not very long or strong. Generally, the Republicans tended to be better financed or better organized, and this helped them especially in Ohio and Colorado. In Kentucky, Republican Judge Cook outspent Democrat Katherine Peden by well over 2 to 1, but had a tough time defeating the only woman running for the U.S. Senate this year...
Fallen Oaks. The Viet Nam issue did not stop some of the best-known Democratic doves from doing exceptionally well against strongly conservative opponents in hawkish states that went for Nixon or Wallace. Arkansas voters approved of J. William Fulbright for his national stature, congressional seniority and defiance of Lyndon Johnson. Frank Church easily surmounted Republican Congressman George V. Hansen, became the first Idaho Democrat ever returned for a third term. Among his constituents, Church's Viet Nam stand burnished his claim of independence from Johnson. South Dakota voters re-elected George McGovern because he displayed obviously deeper knowledge...
Looking to '70. Several incumbents seemed unassailable. Hawaii's Daniel K. Inouye, a Johnson-lining Democrat, swept up 85% of the vote against Wayne Thiessen, a conservative Republican. Almost equally decisive were the victories of the Southern Democratic veterans? Georgia's Herman Talmadge, North Carolina's Sam Ervin and South Carolina's Ernest Hollings. Among the staunchest Democratic liberals, Connecticut's Abe Ribicoff won comfortably, while Birch Bayh overcame the Nixon trend in Indiana. Humphrey's New York victory did not faze Republican Jacob Javits, whose plurality exceeded 1,000,000. Among the easily elected conservative Republicans were Illinois' Everett...
Agnew got swift support from other sources. Maryland's Treasurer John Luetkemeyer, a Democrat, called the editorial "inaccurate, misleading and wrong in its facts." The Baltimore Sun, the Washington Star and the pro-Humphrey Washington Post, which are expert in Maryland politics, also came to Agnew's defense...
...upset contest in Rhode Island, Democrat Frank Licht defeated incumbent GOP Gov. John H. Chafee, Democratic attorney general Forrest Anderson was leading another incumbent Republican governor, Tim M. Babcock, in Montana...