Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democratic senatorial candidates in the South were able to lose even without Carter's help. Former Virginia Attorney General Andrew Miller never invited Carter in, though the President was willing. He lost by a slim margin to former Navy Secretary John Warner, thus casting Elizabeth Taylor in yet another role, Senate wife. In Mississippi, Cochran became the first Republican Senator in almost a century, partly because the black vote was split Democrat Maurice Dantin and independent Black Civil Rights Leader Charles Evers...
...Perhaps because local taxes tend to be lower in the South, there were also fewer manifestations of the tax-cut issue. In fact there were few issues at all: attention seemed to focus on such trivial things as, in Texas, a spurned handshake (Senator Tower's public rebuff to Democrat Robert Krueger) and, in Virginia, a famous wife...
Similarly, Alabama Democrat Forrest ("Fob") James, who parlayed a sporting goods empire into a personal fortune, used $2 million in his successful primary bid and then coasted to victory in the race to succeed George Wallace...
...Florida Governor's race pitted two lavish campaigners against each other. Democrat Robert Graham, a millionaire Miami Lakes land developer and dairyman, spent $2.6 million. His Republican opponent, Jack Eckerd, who built a burgeoning chain of drugstores that bear his name, vowed to spend "whatever it takes" and ended up with a $2.9 million campaign, $2 million of which was his own. But Graham dispelled his wealthy Harvard image with a well-publicized series of 100 one-day stints at blue-collar jobs across the state. He won with a surprisingly large 56% of the vote...
...voters' swerve to the right was especially dramatic in Oregon's gubernatorial contest. After more than two decades as a citadel of liberalism, the state unexpectedly ousted Bob Straub, 58, a Democrat, and voted in Republican Victor Atiyeh, 55, a conservative state senator. But Oregon's voters were as inconsistent as those elsewhere. They re-elected Mark Hatfield, a perennially popular G.O.P. liberal, to a third term in the Senate...