Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week to eye-gouging personal attacks. Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller started the year at an all-time popularity low that gave him scant hope of winning a third term. Throughout a hard, costly campaign, he has narrowed the gap and, toward campaign's end, was hammering at Democrat Frank O'Connor's "demagogy," lack of courage, foresight and "size.'" New York City Council President O'Connor, who is conspicuously short of personal dynamism, effective organization and cash, accused Rockefeller of a "shabby attempt to mislead the people" and exhumed a four-year-old scandal...
Wavering voters were given little guidance by a monsoon of out-of-state luminaries who came in to help both candidates. Bobby Kennedy, who has consistently capitalized on antiwar sentiment, talked briefly about Viet Nam in terms that implied agreement with Hatfield rather than Democrat Duncan...
...Harvard faculty members have endorsed Republican Edward W. Brooke in his Senate campaign against Democrat Endicott Peabody...
...ambitious husband's political career may well be ended, but she could have been weeping for Minnesota Democrats too. The once-proud party of Hubert Humphrey, created in 1944 when he merged Democrats and Farm-Laborites into the Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party, had been humiliated by one of its own, Governor Karl F. Rolvaag. Rolvaag, dumped by the party organization, decided to run for a second term anyway, and clobbered Keith in the September 13 primary by a margin of more than two to one to become the now-chastened Democrats' candidate for Governor. The blow to party prestige...
...Georgia, the first published gubernatorial poll reported Republican Howard ("Bo") Callaway ahead of Democrat Lester Maddox, 42%to 34% , with 24% undecided...