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...Hackett, 39, a tightfisted conservative protege of retiring Governor Deane C. Davis. Salmon is a Democrat, a Catholic and an admitted McGovern man. But he is also a widely respected attorney, an attractive shirtsleeves campaigner with an enthusiastic following, and a protege of former (1963-69) Governor Philip Hoff, the only other Democrat to reach the Vermont statehouse in this century. Salmon's upstream campaign began to turn into an upset when his charge that the Green Mountain State G.O.P. was soft on the ecology issue started to hit home. His case-and his victory -was finally made when...
...Hoff for Senate (Vt.) Campaign Staff...
Looking at the results in the smoky hours of early Wednesday morning, it was easy for liberals to see the Apocalpyse arrived. Goodell, Duffey, Hoff, Tydings, and Gore all met defeat at the hands of Nixon men. Yet as the morning wore on and the cameras began to focus on the Western boards, the results were different. In Indiana, Utah, Nevada, North Dakota, and Wyoming, where Conservatives of the true mold had given their votes to the Republicans in 1968, the Administration bootlickers met ignominious defeat. And in California, a topsy-turvy state where currents and trends are so many...
...Philip Hoff lost out in his attempt to become the first Democratic Senator from Vermont in over a hundred years. Incumbent Sen. Winston Prouty is expected to take 57 per cent of the vote in a campaign including such tactics as cartoonist Al Capp's racist appeal (unsolicited by Prouty) on the Senator's behalf...
...race is rated as a tossup now but could turn on Hoff's energy, use of student volunteers, and widespread television and radio advertising campaigns...