Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tide." Boston Attorney David Goldberg, who had helped engineer Lodge's March victory in New Hampshire, took another look at the returns and muttered: "Poor Lou." He meant big-time Pollster Lou Harris, who ordinarily works for Democrats but had taken a big dabble in trying to predict Oregon's Republican vote. His election-eve guess of 34% to the winner and 28% to the runner-up was close-he just had the names in the wrong order. As it turned out, it was Rockefeller 33%, Lodge...
Even with a huge turnout, though, Rocky's best chance of overtaking Barry's lead might well be in a genuine "stop-Goldwater" coalition. On the eve of the Oregon election, Lodge's campaign managers were planning to help their own man by appealing to Lodge-leaning moderates to support Rockefeller. But after Lodge's defeat at Rocky's hands, they were no longer so sure. "I just don't know," mused Paul Grindle. "We're going to have to do lots of thinking...
Whatever the Lodgemen decide, Rockefeller could tuck at least one item of unexpected aid away in his California campaign kit. In the wake of the Oregon returns, Otis Chandler's powerful Los Angeles Times announced that it would throw its support to Rockefeller...
...Jolly Boys." Just before Oregon, a Midwestern Republican summed up the G.O.P. presidential situation this way: "Everybody's waiting for California. A Goldwater loss there would have a tremendous effect. The jolly boys back East would go to work in a rush. But there's nothing they can do now except wait for a break...
...jolly boys" are the supposed Eastern Republican kingmakers. And if there is going to be a break, Oregon just might have been its beginning. Until Oregon, the kingmakers, with very few exceptions, were not doing a blessed thing...