Word: kerner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pollsters they planned to vote for Barry. Nor did large numbers of voters pass up the presidential race out of apathy or coolness toward both candidates. The presidential vote broke all records. The magnitude of the President's conquest also swept many other Democrats, such as Governor Otto Kerner in Illinois and, most notably, Senate Candidate Robert Kennedy in New York, to victory. Yet perhaps the most fascinating facet of the election was the amazing amount of ticket splitting, as voters chose L.B.J.-and then skipped down the ballot to vote for deserving Republican candidates (see The Senate...
...Chuck Percy's luck finally ran out. He had accused Illinois' Democratic Governor Otto Kerner of being a stooge of Chicago Boss Richard Daley. So Daley went right ahead to deliver Chi- cago, where Negro voter registration was up by 31,000 to 346,000. More- over, the incredibly complex Illinois bal lot encouraged straight-ticket voting as President Johnson won the state over- whelmingly. As a result, moderate Re publicans lost one of the highly touted comers they had depended on to help rebuild a tattered party. >Roger Branigin, 62, a prosperous Indiana corporation and utilities attorney...
PRESIDENT Johnson 1,932,021 Goldwater 1,259,744 GOVERNOR Kerner (D) 1,529,479 Percy...
...flank in the rural areas downstate, despite visits of the "chuckwagon"--a station wagon filled with his handsome family--at almost every fair in the past two years. An eager, freshly scrubbed Chicago businessman, Percy has aroused no passion and even awakened some vague distrust in farmers who respect Kerner as an able, hardworking man who has not sought new tax revenue for use in urban projects...
...that his man was the best candidate for "governor of the United States." Realizing his slip, he smiled knowingly and went on. But tomorrow the smiles will probably be gone and Percy's ambition for the Presidency temporarily quelled. Percy will undoubtedly blame Goldwater for his defeat, but if Kerner's victory is a large as predicted, others will look elsewhere for explanations. And the failure of a moderate Republican to find any issue with which to challenge his opponent will be prominent among them...