Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour after hour the uncertainty continued. Even after midnight, Eastern Standard Time, the division hovered uncannily close in New York, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Virginia, Maine, Mississippi, Hawaii, New Mexico...
Slowly through the early morning. Carter picked up the states he needed. One early network projection tossed New York's juicy 41 electoral votes into the Carter column. By many counts, it was Mississippi that finally sealed the end of eight years of Republican rule...
...were critical in Pennsylvania, Texas and Ohio. If there was any other one group to which Carter owed a great deal, it was the blacks. Four out of five blacks voted for the Georgian, and they apparently made the difference for him in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Louisiana and Mississippi...
Some hardy Democratic perennials bloomed again at the polls. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Edmund Muskie of Maine, Scoop Jackson of Washington, New Jersey's Harrison Williams, West Virginia's Robert Byrd and Mississippi's John Stennis all won easily. So did Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, the Watergate committee's Republican hair shirt. But one of the Senate's most famous names will be missing. In a stunning defeat, Robert Taft Jr., son and namesake of Ohio's "Mr. Republican," lost to Millionaire Businessman Howard Metzenbaum, whom he had defeated...
Says Governor C. Cliff Finch: "We are embarking on a new era, the husbandry of the Pascagoula swamp forest, for the benefit of the citizens of Mississippi." The state is so pleased with its new policy, in fact, that it is already considering acquiring another 1,200 acres of untouched forest land in the Mississippi Delta...