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Others argued that Mahoney had played on the fears and worst instincts of Marylanders, much as Alabama governor George C. Wallace had in 1964 when he took 43 per cent of the vote in the state's presidential preference primary. But the most fashionable rationalization was that Mahoney, after all, had only polled 31 per cent of the vote. He really wasn't even the majority of the party's choice. The Washington Post suggested revamping Maryland's election system to require a runoff if no candidate received a majority of the votes cast...
...late for revisions now. The deed had been done. Still, Sickles supporters looked for a way out. Mahoney had won by less than 1 per cent of the vote, and absentee ballots had to be counted and a canvass conducted to verify the results. There were irregularities in many of the polling places and Sickles could even challenge the entire result of the election. For two weeks the hope persisted. Then, after all the indignance and the rationalization and the searching, it was over. It rained that Wednesday too--two weeks later--and Carlton Sickles announced he was conceding...
...year-old Baltimore contractor whose only previous public administrative experience was serving as state racing commission chairman. Mahoney has been a delegate to the Democratic National Convention four times. But in elections he has not been so successful. Since 1950 he has run for governor three times and U.S. Senator three times in primaries. And he has lost each time. He seems like the tortoise who has finally overtaken the hare and is not quite sure what to make of it all. When Mahoney told a press conference the day after the election, "I feel very humble," he was doubtlessly...
...Mahoney, Sickles, and Finan were the main contenders. There were five others though, including Clarence Miles -- another open-housing opponant -- and Andrew J. Easter -- who wore a Santa Claus beard and an Uncle Sam suit, and whose platform called for "making everyday Christmas." Easter, who runs in every election he can, didn't get too many votes. Clarence Miles polled about 30,000. Finan got 134,000. And Mahoney got 146,000 -- 1600 more than Sickles...
...white backlash is just too simple. Maryland is an odd state. It is half-Northern, half-Southern; half-urban, half-rural. The Eastern Shore seems like another world to the suburbanites of Montgomery and Prince Georges counties. The Shore and the southern counties below Washington are solid Dixie. Mahoney won all of these in the primary (except Miles' home county). But why was everyone so surprised? Wallace took 11 of the 12 in 1964. After the election too many people wouldn't look at a plain fact--the Eastern Shore and the southern counties have simply always been pro segregationist...