Word: gop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...votes in "Seward's Icebox" will not be counted until this morning, but both Nixon and incumbent GOP Governor Ted Stevens should have little trouble carrying the state...
Nixon appeared to have carried Connecticut with almost 60 per cent of the vote. The Republican victory marked the GOP's first win in the state since 1956. There were no other statewide races...
Nixon took 61 per cent of the vote in Delaware, but the two other GOP nominees were in big trouble. Senator J. Caleb Boggs appeared to have lost a close race to Democrat Joseph Biden, and Republican Governor Russell Peterson was locked in a neck-and-neck battle with challenger Sherman Tribbit that remained too close to call...
...well enough there and lost the state. Nixon garnered the Prairie State's 26 electoral votes with 57 per cent of the popular vote. Republican Senator Charles Percy turned back a challenge from Roman Pucinski as expected with 60 per cent of the vote. In perhaps GOP governor Richard Ogilvie and Democratic challenger Daniel Walker were locked in a tight race that would probably not be decided until the woe hours of the morning...
Kansas in Nixon Country, and the President took the state's seven electoral votes with 65 per cent of the popular vote. Democratic Governor Robert Docking survived the GOP landslide with 54 per cent of the vote. Veteran GOP Senator James B. Pearson sailed smoothly back to Washington...