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...Constitution from succeeding himself, and with elections since 1956 showing a strong trend against Republicans, the Democratic nomination seems increasingly precious. In the Democratic wings, just waiting for the right cue to go onstage, is a whole troupe of possible candidates: New Jersey's Governor Robert Meyner, with a big win under his belt; Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson, who has yet to extend his vast Senate prestige to the outside world; Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, ready, in Sputnik's day, to cash in on five years of criticizing Republican defense policy; Adlai Stevenson, believed...
Ambling out of his mother's Phillipsburg house on election night last week to acknowledge victory shouts from 3,000 cheering fellow Democrats, New Jersey's handsome Governor Robert Baumle Meyner smiled broadly at the carefully printed posters and signs held by the faithful. MEYNER IN '60, they read and GOODBYE...
...Meyner's rout of Republican Malcolm Forbes was impressive enough for friends to promote him seriously...
...counties (including normally Republican Essex and Union), smashed Republican hopes by running close on Forbes's heels in the other seven. He corralled the Negro vote, even though Forbes had told Negroes that they should vote Republican in return for the President's action at Little Rock. Meyner spread coattails broad enough to carry back to Trenton with him an additional Democratic state senator and 22 new assemblymen, making the assembly Democratic for the first time in two decades, with the strongest Democratic majority (42 to 18) since...
...light of Eisenhower-Nixon endorsements of Forbes, Meyner's success was all the sweeter because it was a do-it-yourself kind of victory. He had firmly rejected outside aid, i.e., from Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson and Massachusetts' Senator Jack Kennedy. Meyner billboards did not even worry about the word Democrat. In short, Bob Meyner did it on his record, his personality and a well-oiled, new-model state machine. Said he modestly: "Whatever outside political influence the New Jersey verdict may be deemed to have, I leave to others...