Word: democratic
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...turned out, Johnson probably spared his prestige a painful blow by retreating to Texas instead of going out politicking. Save for Montana, where Senator Lee Metcalf won the only major race, Democrats suffered serious defeats in every state that the President had planned to visit. Even in Texas, Republican Senator John Tower crushed Democrat Waggoner Carr. According to a gag making the Washington rounds. "Lyndon...
...their intelligence and good sense rather than their prejudices." In many races, in fact, there was something of a Negro "frontlash." Winthrop Rockefeller became the first Republican to win Arkansas' governorship by capturing 80% of the Negro vote?which turned out to be his margin of victory. South Carolina Democrat Ernest ("Fritz") Rollings' 10,000-vote margin for a U.S. Senate seat came mostly from Negro votes. In Maryland, Republican Agnew beat Mahoney on the votes of poor Negroes, upper-income Jews and Government workers from nearby Washington...
...still-dominant Democrats also got a sorely needed transfusion. While such segregationist stalwarts as Arkansas' John McClellan, Georgia's Richard Russell, Louisiana's Allen Ellender and Mississippi's James Eastland were returned to the Senate with little or no opposition, a number of more progressive Democrats also won statewide office?notably Buford Ellington, elected Governor of Tennessee, and South Carolina's Governor Robert E. McNair, who as Lieutenant Governor acceded to the top job last year when Governor Donald Russell resigned. In Virginia, the big winner was William Spong, the moderate Democrat who ousted Senator A. Willis Robertson...
Nowhere in the South was victory sweeter for the Republicans than in Arkansas, where Winthrop Rockefeller, 54, had to overcome both political tradition and a barrage of personal slurs by Democrat Jim Johnson, 41, a ranting segregationist who helped make the campaign one of the nation's dirtiest. Rockefeller, who gave Democratic Governor Orval Faubus a scare in the 1964 election, loosened up his campaign style, tightened up his party's fledgling apparatus, and let Jim Johnson undo himself. In the process, the nascent Arkansas G.O.P. elected its first Lieutenant Governor and its first U.S. Congressman in modern times...
What Scheer and other leftists did, of course, was decide to boycott the election. Even CDC members refused to work in the Brown campaign. "Now no Democrat will ever again take us for granted," Scheer contends. "They'll have to make concessions to us. We'll have more of a machine than the pros when Brown loses...