Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They timed to say As Maine Goes, so Goes the Nation and Nixon proved the adage by taking the state's four electoral votes with over 60 per cent of the vote. But in a tremendous upset. Democrat William Hathaway appeared to have stopped Margaret Chase Smith's expected walk to a fifth term...
McGovern was thought to have a chance for Michigan's 21 electoral votes but Nixon still beat the South Dakota Senator with 58 per cent of the vote. Republican Senate minority whip Robert Griffin beat down a stiff challenge from Democrat state Attorney General Frank Kelley to return to Washington with 5-4 per cent of the vote...
...Nixon and McGovern were locked in a neck and neck battle for Minnesota's ten electoral votes, but pundits predicted a Nixon victory with 52 per cent of the vote. Popular liberal Democrat Walter Mondale won reelection to the Senate with 62 per cent of the tally...
Nixon won Montana as expected, but failed to bring down antiwar Democrat Senator Lee Metcalf, who beat Republican Henry Hibbard with 54 per cent of the tally. The GOP's Edward Smith appeared to have won the gubernatorial mansion...
Nixon won New Hampshire's four electoral votes handily, and Democratic Senator Thomas Mclntyre turned back a stiff challenge by the GOP's Wesley Powel. Three Men--Democrat Roger Crowley, Republican Meldrim Thomson and independent Malcolm McLane--were locked in a tight race for the governorship...