Word: democratics
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Finally, the most prominent citizen of Grand Rapids could at least take consolation from the fact that his old House seat will again be held by a Republican. Democrat Richard F. Vander Veen, 53, who succeeded Gerald Ford in a special 1974 election, was defeated by the G.O.P.'s Harold Sawyer, 56, who had been an aggressive county prosecutor...
Entering election year '76, there were 36 Democratic Governors to only 13 Republicans and one independent, Maine's James Longley. In the 14 contests decided Tuesday, the Democrats triumphed in nine and the Republicans in five-a pickup of one statehouse for the Democrats. A prostatehood candidate won office in Puerto Rico. A generally youthful group of G.O.P. hopefuls scored impressive wins in Delaware, Illinois and Vermont. The Republicans also re-elected their popular chief executive in Indiana, and returned to office for the third straight two-year stint Archconservative Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire on his single...
Following one of the state's dullest campaigns in memory, Democrat John D. ("Jay") Rockefeller IV, 39, the nephew of Nelson Rockefeller and grandson of John D. Jr., swept to an almost 2-to-1 triumph over his Republican opponent, former Governor Cecil Underwood, 54. Rockefeller, who lost the Governor's race four years ago to Arch Moore, took no chances this time: he spent $1.7 million to win last spring's primary and more than $800,000 in this campaign. Nonetheless, he was able to defuse the wealth issue by suggesting that he was too rich...
...antipoverty worker, was finally able to put to rest the carpetbagger issue by emphasizing his four years of service as West Virginia's secretary of state and his two years as president of Wesleyan College in Buckhannon. "I am a West Virginian," insisted the New York City-born Democrat. "My kids were born here. Try and tell them they're not West Virginians...
James ("Big Jim") Thompson, 40, who in four years as U.S. Attorney put dozens of Mayor Daley's underlings into the slammer for various forms of corruption, easily knocked off another Daley lieutenant, jowly Democrat Michael Hewlett, to win the state's governorship by more than a million votes. A Republican liberal, Thompson rolled up heavy majorities in conservative downstate Illinois and Chicago's suburbs; he even made inroads into the traditionally Democratic black wards of Chicago...