Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more respected Congressmen to be unseated was Chicago's independent-minded Democrat Abner Mikva, 46, the victim of redistricting, his own stand in favor of busing and his association with McGovern, whom he supported even before the Democratic convention. One of the earliest challengers to the organization of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Mikva had made his peace with the "boss." Mikva's Republican opponent, Sam Young, 49, a Chicago attorney active in local G.O.P. affairs, spoke out harshly against "the McGovern-Mikva brand of government," a gamble that paid off among the conservative voters along the North Shore. In winning...
...HAMPSHIRE. Republican Meldrim Thomson Jr., 60, a publisher of law books, defeated Democrat Roger J. Crowley Jr., 60, a retired Navy captain. The two had a lot in common. They were both foursquare against state income and sales taxes, and they were both touted as "excellent candidates" by New Hampshire's reigning superconservative, William Loeb, publisher of the Manchester Union Leader. Loeb backed them both in their respective primaries, but threw his newspaper's support to Thomson in the main event. Possibly he simply soured on Crowley, who had lost a bid for the governorship in 1970 despite...
VERMONT. Thomas P. Salmon, 40, started out with what looked like three strikes against him when he launched his campaign against Luther F. Hackett, 39, a tightfisted conservative protege of retiring Governor Deane C. Davis. Salmon is a Democrat, a Catholic and an admitted McGovern man. But he is also a widely respected attorney, an attractive shirtsleeves campaigner with an enthusiastic following, and a protege of former (1963-69) Governor Philip Hoff, the only other Democrat to reach the Vermont statehouse in this century. Salmon's upstream campaign began to turn into an upset when his charge that...
DELAWARE. Democrat Sherman W. Tribbiff, 49, coasted into office on a kind of reverse landslide: the land simply slid out from under his opponent, Republican Incumbent Russell W. Peterson, 56. A research chemist with a Ph.D. who left a $75,000-a-year job at Du Pont to run successfully for the governorship in 1968, Peterson had won a deserved reputation as a reformer and innovator; among his credits was a widely praised coastal zoning law, enacted in 1971, that barred polluting industries from building plants along Delaware's 381-mile shore line. But Peterson's fortunes suddenly...
...hardware dealer from downstate Wallace country who serves as legislative leader, Tribbitt wisely responded to his opportunity by saying very little. The fact that Delaware has no commercial TV stations of its own was no handicap for the old-line Democrat. He is, as his son-in-law and campaign manager Skip Webb conceded to reporters, "not too articulate." Tribbitt simply waited patiently for his majority to pile...