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...time in the last 20 years. Last week it surged unmistakably across politically powerful California, the G.O.P.'s last outpost on the West Coast. In the popularity-poll California primary, the Democratic candidate for Governor, State Attorney General Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, outpolled U.S. Senator William Knowland, Republican candidate for Governor, by 600,000 votes, and Democrats outpolled Republicans all up and down the ballot (see Elections...
Last week the President listened while California's Bill Knowland reported on his own misfortunes and his party's in the California primary. Ike's comment was the understatement of the week: "We have just got to work...
...party nominations were concerned, everything went according to prediction. Attorney General Edmund Gerald ("Pat") Brown of San Francisco got the Democratic nomination for Governor over nondescript Democratic opposition. Senate Minority Leader William Fife Knowland, with no G.O.P. opposition, got the Republican nomination, and will fight out the governorship with Brown in November. In the battle for a Senate successor to Bill Knowland, Northern California's Congressman Clair Engle took the Democratic nomination. And G.O.P. Governor Goodwin J. Knight, who ran for the Senate after Knowland pressured him out of another term as Governor, won the Republican nomination over...
...battle for Governor, Democrat Brown 1) bested Bill Knowland in
the combined Republican-Democratic total by 606,000 votes, 2) ran ahead
of Knowland in nearly all of California's 58 counties, 3) got a
Democrat's largest vote since 1932, 4) took 23% of the Republican
primary vote from an opponent who, six years ago, won both primaries
and returned triumphantly to the Senate with the most votes (3,982,448)
any California candidate ever got. Knowland polled 15% of the
Democratic vote.
...Running Independently." No sooner were last week's totals posted than California Republicans began to scratch for explanations. Did Bill Knowland fare so badly because his job in the Senate had limited him to 14 days' pre-primary campaigning? Maybe, but by the same token, Congressman Engle, also based in Washington, led his Republican opponent handsomely, though he was far less of a statewide personality. Had Knowland stirred up a hornets' nest of organized-labor opposition with his unqualified stand for a state right-to-work law? Labor certainly was out to beat him. But Republican Goodie...