Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would take an electoral earthquake, not just a landslide on Nov. 5, to strip the Democrats of the majority they have enjoyed since 1955 in the U.S. Senate. When the 90th Congress adjourned, they had 63 members to 37 for the G.O.P. Only 34 of the Senate's 100 seats are to be filled this year, including the one that belongs to Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, who is unopposed. A week before Election Day, the outlook is for a G.O.P. gain of anywhere from two to nine seats. That would leave the Senate with a breakdown ranging from...
...Four Democratic incumbents-Herman Talmadge of Georgia, Hawaii's Daniel Inouye, North Carolina's Sam Ervin and Ernest Hollings of South Carolina-Seem virtually assured of reelection. Democrat James Allen, a conservative Southerner, is a cinch to win the seat of Alabama's retiring Lister Hill. Five Republicans-Illinois' Everett Dirksen, New Hampshire's Norris Cotton, New York's Jacob Javits, Utah's Wallace Bennett and Vermont's George Aiken-are likewise rated as shoo...
...Democrats are counted as leaders in nine more states. One is California, where liberal Democrat Alan Cranston is far ahead of conservative Republican Max Rafferty in a battle for the seat of Thomas Kuchel, a G.O.P. liberal. Another is Connecticut, though Abe Ribicoff is being pressed unexpectedly hard by Republican Edwin May. Republicans lead in another six Senate races, with comparatively easy victories forecast...
...Eagleton, 39, has been running so hard that he has lost 16 pounds since January, and his trousers sag around his hips. A moody six-footer who chain-smokes two packs of cigarettes a day, Eagleton toppled scandal-tainted Senator Edward Long in a primary tussle. Now the liberal Democrat is pitting his flamboyant campaign style against nine-term Congressman Thomas B. Curtis, 57, a sobersided, moderately conservative Republican who does his homework so assiduously that he is widely known as the hardest-working man in the House...
...firmly prolabor; yet his role in arbitrating last year's national rail strike miffed union leaders. Morse abandoned the G.O.P. 16 years ago and later be came a Democrat, an act still remembered with anger by many Republicans...