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...state-level disputes weighed at least as heavily as national politics. Thus in Kentucky, where voters could have voted a straight Republican ticket with the flick of a single voting-machine lever, not enough did. The result was that while Nixon was winning handily, Republican Senatorial Candidate Louie B. Nunn was losing a seat that had traditionally been Republican. Whatever patterns existed seemed in conflict with one another. Most of the Democrats who won surprising victories?such as Floyd K. Haskell in Colorado, Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Delaware, Dick Clark in Iowa and William D. Hathaway in Maine?...
...campaign for a Georgia Senate seat eventually developed into a bare-knuckle brawl between Democrat Sam Nunn, 34, and Republican Congressman Fletcher Thompson, 47. As the campaign reached its climax, Nunn happily swung a devastating haymaker: Opponent Thompson during his six years in Congress had dropped 119 bills into the hopper, but not one had ever made it out of committee. "He's just interested in headlines," snorted Nunn. Nunn's ridicule was helped along by some Thompson gaffes. The Congressman, who pilots his own plane, at one point scheduled an airport press conference and then proceeded...
Nixon took 79 per cent of Georgia's vote, but Democratic senatorial hopeful Sam Nunn edged the more conservative Rep. Fletcher Thompson for Richard Russell's old seat. Strong support from Governor Jimmy Carter and Sen. Herman Talmadge helped Nunn in his successful...
Nixon walked away with 60 per cent of Kentucky's popular vote, but his coattails were too short the former Governor Louie B. Nunn, who was edged by Democrat Walter Huddleston in a close race for the Senate seat of retiring John Sherman Cooper...
Republican Candidate Fletcher Thompson, 47, despite his base in a middle-class Atlanta suburb, appeals to much the same constituency as Nunn. Three-Term Congressman Thompson is an unreconstructed conservative who opposes busing, liberal judges, Jane Fonda in Hanoi, Black Power and gun controls. Nunn was an early favorite but the two are now roughly even...