Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrat Ella Grasso, 55, Governor-elect of Connecticut, is definitely at home with the boys. The first woman Governor in America whose husband did not precede her in the post, she was elected because of political skills that are universal and unisexual. Downplaying the feminist issue and opposing abortion, she was sometimes called "Ella fella." Scoring heavily throughout the state, she defeated her G.O.P. opponent, Congressman Robert Steele, 631,382 to 431,142. "In Connecticut," she explains, "I'm just an old shoe...
...populist image, while substantial financial support came from associates in the insurance business. Most important, his almost messianic pitch that efficient business-type management could shave $25 million from Maine's state budget was convincing enough to gain him a 40% plurality in the polls (compared with Democrat George Mitchell's 37% and Republican James Erwin...
...vowed to solve Maine's chronic economic backwardness by skillful budget paring and attracting new business. But as an independent, he faces unusual difficulties. Maine's state bureaucracy is as entrenched as any in the country. Longley, who on election night allowed, "I'm still a Democrat," may indeed have to shed his independent elective mantle to win legislative votes for his program. Still, the Governor-elect remains confident. He has already vowed not to seek reelection, in the perhaps naive hope that this will improve his chances for accomplishment, and he feels that his power...
Some of the election results made even the Democrats blink. In Wisconsin they took the state senate for the first time since 1893. In Illinois they control both houses for the first time in 36 years, in Ohio for the first time in 15 years. At times it seemed as though any Democrat could beat any Republican. In Illinois an obscure civil servant named Robert T. Lane defeated Jack Walker, a former speaker of the house. W. Robert Blair, the present speaker of the Illinois house and a man who had been mentioned as a gubernatorial candidate in 1976, went...
...Connecticut, a 93-to-58 Republican advantage in the house suddenly became a mirror-image 93-to-58 Democratic majority. In Maine, once rock-ribbed Republican, the Democrats won domination of the house, 88 to 23. In the Massachusetts senate, the Democrats rolled up better than a 4-to-1 margin. Democrat William Owens, a former inmate of the Walpole State Prison, became the first black to be elected to the Massachusetts Senate...