Word: oregon
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Senator Eugene J. McCarthy appeared early this morning to have won an upset victory in the Oregon Democratic Primary, energizing his own troubled campaign and dealing a major blow to the Presidential hopes of Senator Robert F. Kennedy '48, his opponent...
President Johnson, who bowed out of the race too late to have his name removed from the Oregon ballot, had 17,759 votes or 13 per cent, and Vice-President Humphrey, who entered too late to have his name added, had 9,722 write-ins or 7 per cent...
Arriving in Oregon after a day of California campaigning, Kennedy acknowledged defeat, "It would appear that McCarthy has won the primary," Kennedy said, "I congratulate...
McCarthy's victory confirmed the speculation of those who recalled that the Minnesota Senator had run several percentage points ahead of election-eve polls in Indiana and Nebraska, apparently taking a substantial majority of the undecided vote both times. In this sense, the Oregon outcome was consistent with the first two Kennedy-McCarthy encounters...
...Kennedy, defeat in Oregon makes next Tuesday's California primary doubly critical, and some observers have suggested he will now find it more difficult there to achieve the resounding victory he seeks...