Word: gop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meekly for moderate leadership. Republican leaders who voted for Goldwater in San Francisco will retain power in local organizations. For the Arizona Senator, however, this fact will be of little comfort. Politicians disagree on many things, but on the need for victory they all concur. Barry Goldwater led the GOP to one of the worst defeats any American party has suffered in modern times. Republicans lost 39 seats in the House and 27 of 35 races for the Senate. On the state level, the party lost control of both houses of state legislatures in five states and one house...
...Republicans will get together at two meetings in the near future. Governor Robert E. Smylie of Idaho, chairman of the Republican Governors' Conference, has called a get-together of the 17 GOP governors for the next two or three weeks to survey the post-election confusion; the Republican National Committee is scheduled to meet in January. The governors could very well play an anti-Goldwater tune, and the National Committee, though many of its members owe their appointments to Goldwater, may not be as loyal as expected...
...moderates' task--to "remake" the GOP--is a difficult and delicate one. If they really want to change the party, they will have to display something lacking both at the convention and since the election: unity. They will have to begin at the bottom of the party and win control of the organization in areas now dominated by conservatives...
...proceed as unobtrusively as possible, for they could very easily alienate anti-Goldwater conservatives who thought Goldwater reactionary and voted for Johnson. In some areas of the country, this type of person represents a large portion of the electorate that normally votes Republican. To lose them would be a GOP disaster...
...tidal wave of Volpe votes, since few Republicans would have had reason to split their tickets. There was no Ken Keating in Massachusetts. Even somebody as unknown and as vulnerable to a Democratic landslide as Elywnn Miller, the Republican aspirant for Auditor, held on to the usual number of GOP votes as he lost in the usual fashion. Lloyd Waring, the local Goldwater man, is going to be very lonely in the next two years as Saltonstall, Volpe, Brooke and Richardson all ignore him and proceed with business as usual...