Word: governors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the most prominent over-promisers went down to resounding defeat. In the New Jersey Senate race, Jeff Bell, perhaps the most avid proponent of Kemp-Roth, was beaten by former Basketball Star Bill Bradley, who proposed more modest tax cuts. Perry Duryea, the G.O.P. candidate for Governor of New York, promised to increase welfare grants and reduce taxes at the same time. The victorious incumbent, Hugh Carey, refrained from any such foolishness. In Arkansas, Bill Clinton, 32, was elected the nation's youngest Governor, even though he vowed to ask for a tax increase if a referendum reducing...
...election marked the further erosion of the two-party system. Ticket splitting was rampant. Unpredictable, independent-minded voters gave Republican Milliken a third term in the Michigan statehouse but ejected G.O.P. Senator Robert Griffin. In Kansas, Republican Governor Robert Bennett was ousted by Democrat John Carlin, but Republican Nancy Kassebaum coasted to an easy victory over her Democratic opponent, Bill Roy, and thus became the only woman to serve in the Senate at the present time...
...host of other special interest groups, PACs had contributed more than $60 million at the mid-point of the campaign, as compared with spending a total of $23 million in the last presidential election. There were some signs of a backlash against the growing influence of the PACs. Wisconsin Governor-elect Dreyfus singled them out for special obloquy in his rambunctious quasipopulist campaign against the special interests...
...most impressive Republican winners was Illinois Governor James ("Big Jim") Thompson, who defied the region's anti-incumbency trend to win reelection by some 600,000 votes. His feisty Democratic opponent, State Comptroller Michael Bakalis, failed to find any effective way of attacking Thompson, who had kept his 1976 election promises to cut spending, balance the state budget and hold down taxes...
...aside inevitable speculation about a possible presidential candidacy in 1980. Said he: "Before anybody runs for President, he'd better have the makings of a President. He must demonstrate the qualities and abilities to be President." Thompson clearly hopes to do just that in his next two years as Governor...