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Romney refused to don "the Goldwater albatross," concentrated on his record (he turned Michigan's chronic deficit into a $57.1 million surplus), thus did even better in Detroit's Democratic Wayne County than he had two years ago. In doing so, the canny car builder denied a ride...
>Chuck Percy's luck finally ran out. He had accused Illinois' Democratic Governor Otto Kerner of being a stooge of Chicago Boss Richard Daley. So Daley went right ahead to deliver Chi- cago, where Negro voter registration was up by 31,000 to 346,000. More- over, the...
> Warren Hearnes, 41, Missouri's Dem-ocratic candidate, scorned his G.O.P. rival Ethan Allen Hitchcock Shepley, 68. Said Hearnes: "He has only one chance to win, and that's if Goldwater is a sensation." Hearnes was right, won in a walkaway over Shepley, former chancellor of St. Louis...
The Deep South was a different story. Not since Reconstruction had Georgia, Alabama or Mississippi sent a Republican to Capitol Hill. But in 1964, the only Republican on Mississippi's congressional ballot scored the state's greatest political upset in memory: Prentiss Walker, a hard-shell poultry farmer...
The nation's biggest city had some of its most fascinating House races. In Manhattan's 17th ("Silk Stocking") District, where everybody wears nylons, able, articulate Republican John V. Lindsay, 42, spurned Goldwater and captured a fourth term by a 2-to-l margin over the combined totals...