Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state-loan scandal has crippled State Auditor Cloud and the rest of the G.O.P. ticket. At the campaign's outset, Cloud unsuccessfully demanded that two of his running mates, who had accepted political contributions from borrowers of state funds, withdraw. Former Congressman John J. Gilligan, a liberal Democrat, is expected to win easily despite Cloud's needling of him as "Tax-a-billion Gilligan." So heavily do the Republican scandals weigh on Ohio political scales this year that Democrats have a clear shot at control of a vital state. PENNSYLVANIA. Hubert Humphrey could explain the impossibility of shucking...
...YORK. For weeks, Democrat Arthur Goldberg's campaign had pleased only his opponents-and New York insomniacs. Attempting to unseat three-term Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the pompous and verbose Goldberg inspired only an apt characterization that is a campaign cliche: "Yesterday I spent a week with Arthur Goldberg." But things began to steam last week as the usually decorous Goldberg responded to a Rockefeller charge with the earthy observation that "Rockefeller is full of bullshit." Pardon? "You can quote me," fumed Goldberg to startled reporters. "I want you to quote...
Rockefeller had brought Goldberg to a boil by charging that his foe had promised a $70,000-a-year job to a leading New York Democrat in exchange for a Goldberg endorsement. Clearly startled by the fury of Goldberg's reply, Rockefeller said, "I did not mean it in a disparaging or derogatory...
...FLORIDA. Democratic chances to take over a large state's gubernatorial chair now occupied by a Republican seem unexpectedly bright in Florida. Rambunctious and resilient Governor Claude Kirk split the party when he lured rejected Supreme Court Nominee G. Harrold Carswell into a Republican primary for the Senate, whereas Democrats are displaying uncommon unity behind Reubin Askew, a teetotaling Presbyterian elder whose favorite "hobby," he says, is going to church. Askew accuses Kirk of "government by crisis," inept fiscal management and a 45% increase in property taxes. Kirk's counterthrusts are characteristic: Askew is an ultra liberal...
VIRGINIA: Following the breakup of the traditional Byrd machine, a three-way Senate race developed between the incumbent, Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr.; George Rawlings, a liberal Democrat; and Ray Garland, a conservative Republican. The result will determine both who holds the reigns of power in the state and in the once-omnipotent Democratic party...