Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bright young stars of the emerging Republican majority took a beating in the Texas senatorial race. Rep. George Bush, who received more money than any other senatorial candidate from the Republican National committee, was defeated by Democrat Lloyd Bensten, Bensten, who had to go great lengths to prove he was more conservative than Bush, had defeated liberal Senator Ralph Yarborough in the Democratic primary. President Nixon had been anxious to have Bush in the Senate, but except for the party label, Nixon will not be unhappy with the election of Bensten. Bensten received 55 per cent of the vote...
With about 50 per cent of the Third District vote counted, the Rev. Robert F. Drinan S.J., a Jesuit priest running as an antiwar Democrat, held a 5000-vote lead over his Republican opponent, John McGlennon, who has campaigned on a law and order platform. Drinan's opponent in the Democratic primary, hawkish incumbent Philip J. Philbin, trailed badly in his write-in campaign...
...Tenth District, antiwar Democrat Gerry Studds clung to a precarious 3400-vote lead out of nearly 16,000 cast over six-term Republican incumbent Hastings Keith, while the antiwar campaign of Democrat Bertram A. Yaffe appeared headed for defeat at the hands of long-time Republican Twelfth District congresswoman Margaret Heckler, who led by more than 7000 votes out of 43,000 cast with one-fourth of the votes counted...
...Ninth District, conservative Democrat Louise Day Hicks roundly defeated her two opponents, Republican Laurence Curtis and Independent Daniel Houton, by amassing nearly 60 per cent of the votes...
After encountering surprisingly strong opposition, antiwar Democrat Michael Harrington apparently defeated Howard Phillips, thus earning his first full term in the Sixth District Seat he won in a special election last year...