Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evidently, Maryland knew Spiro Agnew too well. With 98 per cent of its precincts in, Humphrey had carried the state 43 to 41. But his coattails weren't quite broad enough for incumbent Sen. Dan Brewster, who lost to Republican Charles Mathias...
There was little doubt that Mississippi would deliver heavily for George Wallace, and it did, giving him over 80 per cent of the popular vote in that state. All five Democratic incumbents, running for re-election to the House won easy victories, with G. V. Montgomery of Meridian turnback former Congressman Prentiss Walker in the only seriously contested race in the state...
Nixon took Nevada. He had 47 per cent to Humphrey's 40, with Wallace getting...
...Jersey, expected to give Wallace substantial blue-collar support, and Nixon a majority of from 100,000 to 300,000 votes, turned out to be a cliff-hanger. Wallace ran poorly, with only about ten per cent of the vote, and Humphrey support materialized in the last week of the campaign. The state eventually went to Nixon, however, by about 50,000 votes early this morning...
...many other western states, Nixon won. He took the Land of Enchantment's 4 electoral votes with roughly 51 per cent to Humphrey's 41 and Wallace's 8. In the gubernatorial race, Fabian Chavez and Gov. David Cargo were neck and neck in one of the tightest races of the night...