Word: republicanness
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...Republican success was not bloodless: two nationally prominent G.O.P. incumbents met defeat at the hands of Democratic unknowns. Rhode Island's John Chafee, a Rockefeller activist seeking his fourth term, and Montana's Tim Babcock, after a third term, were dropped by the only unifying issue of the gubernatorial contest?taxes. Chafee had endorsed a state income-tax increase from a maximum of 5% to 8% in order to bring in $35 million in much-needed revenues. His Democratic rival, Superior Court Justice Frank Licht, 52, countered with a proposed investment tax, and that turned the trick. Babcock opted...
Shattered Tradition. The Republicans scored several notable upsets. Delaware's Charles L. Terry Jr., at 68 the nation's oldest Governor, was defeated by Republican Russell Peterson, 51, who surged ahead after Terry suffered a heart attack. A civic activist and Du Pont employee, Peterson is a rather dull, determined organizer. Arizona's one-eyed Republican Governor Jack Williams, 59, ran a repeat of his 1966 defeat of ex-Governor Sam Goddard, aided by a liquor-board scandal uncovered in the debris of Goddard's earlier regime. Wisconsin's Warren Knowles, 60, who was not favored to retain the governorship...
Perhaps the biggest break with political tradition came in turbulent Puerto Rico, where the ironhanded 28-year reign of Luis Muñoz Marín's Popular Democratic Party was rudely shattered by millionaire Luis A. Ferré, 64, a "statehood" Republican whose New Progressive Party was formed only last year. Slight and elegantly tailored, Ferré defeated the P.D.P. candidate Luis Negrón López, thanks to a diversion of popular votes to Governor Roberto Sanchez Vilella. Ferré is unabashedly pro-American; the art museum that he founded and funded in his native Ponce was designed to symbolize the interaction...
...ILLINOIS. Statewide races are usually tests between Democratic Chicago and Republican downstate Illinois, but this year the G.O.P. had a contender who could hold his own in the city: Cook County Board President Richard Ogilvie, 45, who won his current position and a previous term as Cook County Sheriff in Mayor Daley's Democratic fiefdom. A World War II tank commander, whose facial injuries left him with a masklike expression, Ogilvie earned fame as a Mafia-busting U.S. special investigator, a fact that helped him win against the hard law-and-order line of Democratic Incumbent Governor Samuel Shapiro...
...INDIANA. Republican Edgar D. Whitcomb, 50, is a trim (6 ft., 180 Ibs.) George Romney look-alike whose wife Pat is widely regarded as the prettiest woman on the Indiana political scene. A bomber navigator in World War II, Whitcomb was captured by the Japanese, later wrote a book called Escape from Corregidor, which he distributed by the thousands during his campaign. In his race against Lieutenant Governor Robert L. Rock, the Democratic nominee, conservative Whitcomb promised to veto any rise in state taxes, even though the Indiana treasury is bare...