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...became the first Republican to win Arkansas' governorship by capturing 80% of the Negro vote?which turned out to be his margin of victory. South Carolina Democrat Ernest ("Fritz") Rollings' 10,000-vote margin for a U.S. Senate seat came mostly from Negro votes. In Maryland, Republican Agnew beat Mahoney on the votes of poor Negroes, upper-income Jews and Government workers from nearby Washington...
Georgia, Alabama and Florida, where Conservative Claude Kirk Jr. became the first Republican Governor in more than 90 years by borrowing George Mahoney's slogan, "Your Home Is Your Castle," backlash is hardly a suitable term; the racism was always there, needed no Negro demonstration to stir...
...four years as Lieutenant Governor in the popular ad ministration of outgoing Governor Scranton. Indeed, Pennsylvania voters' reaffirmation was vigorous enough to regain Republican control of both houses of the legislature by a hair. In Maryland, even though Republican Ted Agnew came from behind to defeat Segregationist George Mahoney in the gubernatorial campaign, voters also seemed content with the status quo, re-electing Democrats to all other statewide offices and keeping the state legislature lopsidedly Democratic...
Doubtful Honors. But did they know? The predictions so confidently made were all too often wrong. Shortly after the polls closed in Maryland, CBS named Democrat George P. Mahoney the new Governor; hours later it became embarrassingly clear that the winner was Republican Spiro Agnew. ABC declared Thomas Lusk the winner in the New Mexico gubernatorial race; later the network had to retract when Lusk lost. NBC earned the doubtful honor of being first to announce that Democrat Lester Maddox had won the race for Governor of Georgia. After the other networks made the same mistake, a beaming Maddox...
...MARYLAND GOVERNOR 74% of the vote Agnew (R) 215,715 Mahoney (D) 183,000 U.S. House (8): +1 Republican...