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...carried 26 states -I carried the two biggest with Democratic Governors, lost the two biggest with Republican Governors.* The Governors cannot produce votes for a President-only a machine can. The only machine left is Daley's-and we'll see if we can't offset that with the Ogilvie machine. Sometimes Governors can be a drag in a presidential election. When it's your Governor, they need roads and all kinds of things and then you have to get involved in it. No. Governors by and large in this day and age do not play...
...offset the tax reductions. Heath's government is pruning the welfare state in an even more thorough manner than did Winston Churchill when he returned to power in 1951 after six years of Labor rule. The new budget eliminates funds for the nationalization of the ports, halts grants for industry and the building of tourist hotels and will begin phasing out aid for London commuter rail lines. "Our object," explained Barber, "is to widen the area within which industry rather than government will take decisions...
White's loss, however, following a strong primary victory over state senate leader Maurice Donahue, has left the Democratic Party leaderless in a state that is registered 2-1 Democratic. Despite the Governor's strong showing, his gubernatorial victory did little to offset the heavily Democratic Massachusetts legislature...
...Ohio, Republican Robert Taft Jr. appeared to be edging out Democratic liberal Howard Metzenbaum for the seat occupied by retiring Democratic Senator Stephen Young. Metzenbaum had put together an old-style Democratic coalition to beat astronaut John Glenn in the primary but he seems to have been unable to offset the Taft name and a red smear that surfaced a few weeks ago in the election-this despite liberal Democrat John Gilligan's strong victory in the Governor's race...
Drinan's staff feared that a strong showing by Philbin in the Western half of the district, including the factory towns of Fitchburg and Leominster, would offset Drinan's advantage in suburban Newton, Waltham, and Watertown...