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Rockefeller nonetheless has maintained a healthy lead. Though unsuccessful in his bid to unseat Governor Orval Faubus two years ago, Rockefeller got nearly 44% of the vote. Since then, he has built a Republican organization in almost every corner of the state, and has never stopped campaigning...
...cries of "fiscal excess." Furthermore, the victory of Jim Johnson, a racist with Goldwaterite notions about the role of government in American life, over a moderate in the Democratic primary for governor of Arkansas demonstrated that the voters opposed or tries of the vast state spending programs of Orval Faubus, as much as they applauded his istransigence toward integration...
...when he entered the campaign last spring. Many even discounted his chances after he ran first in the July 26 primary, expecting most Democrats to rally in the runoff behind J. Frank Holt, 55, an easygoing moderate and the candidate of the Arkansas machine headed by outgoing Governor Orval Faubus...
...slickers realized was that Johnson, who resigned from the State Supreme Court to campaign, was having an electric effect on Arkansas' farmers and hill folk. His attraction was not entirely based on his segregationist views. He vowed that his election would end the twelve-year rule of the Faubus machine. He called Lyndon Johnson, who is none too popular in Arkansas, a "socialist" and a "parasite." He also, on occasion, made Washington sound like Sodom and Gomorrah...
Winthrop in Winthrop. Johnson's opponent in November will be Republican Winthrop Rockefeller, 54, who this week opens his campaign in the tiny town of Winthrop (pop. 203). Rockefeller, who has singlehandedly rejuvenated the state G.O.P., won a surprising 43% of the vote when he ran against Faubus in 1964, and had hoped to do even better this time, especially if he faced the lackluster Holt. Johnson's victory not only robs Rockefeller of much of the anti-Faubus vote that came his way two years ago, but also injects into the battle a lively and colorful campaigner...