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...once-mighty Democrats were in trouble at home. For the first time since 1954 they did not control the governorship (a tremendously powerful position in Minnesota where the legislature is elected without party designation). Furthermore, they had little chance of defeating powerful incumbent Elmer L. Anderson...
...high school graduate who built a successful trucking business, Babcock was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1960, acceded to the governorship two years later when Republican Incumbent Donald Nutter was killed in an airplane crash. Since barely winning election in his own right in 1964, Babcock has become a cocky, polished political performer. The G.O.P. has plastered the state with "Win with Tim" billboards and issued 30,000 bumper stickers proclaiming WE EAT MONTANA BEEF, NOT L.B.J. BALONEY...
...state. In one of the nation's most flamboyant and free-spending races, Democrat Milton J. Shapp, 53, and Republican Lieutenant Governor Raymond P. Shafer, 49, by the morning of Nov. 8 will have lavished at least $3,600,000 on the cashkrieg campaign for the governorship...
...Sale. The candidates have devoted most of their energies to name-calling. Shapp charges that Shafer is a "Goldwaterite" and "against everything that benefits the public." Shafer pictures Shapp as an "eccentric" whose proposals are either "crackbrained" or "crazy." Shapp claims that Shafer "already has pawned the governorship" to "fat-cat hidden bosses." Shafer says that Shapp is out to buy the state, passes out buttons showing a NOT FOR SALE sign plastered across a photo of the statehouse...
...Some of Connecticut's richest Republicans have sent their campaign contributions to conservatives running elsewhere-Ronald Reagan in California, John Tower in Texas, Bo Callaway in Georgia-instead of helping liberal G.O.P. Candidate E. Clayton Gengras in his race for the state governorship. These outstate contributions, said Gengras' finance chairman, already total some...