Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arizona: Trailing in the pollsters' books only a few weeks ago, Republican Incumbent Barry Goldwater, 49, closed the gap with a flurry of TV talks, trimmed outgoing Governor Ernest McFarland after a bare-knuckle campaign that had the rancor of a personal feud. By beating McFarland, despite the Democratic trend, by winning in the teeth of Big Labor's threat to get him, unabashedly conservative Barry Goldwater emerged as Capitol Hill's No. 1 spokesman of the Republican right wing...
California: Liberal Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight, 61, hitherto a favorite of California Democrats, paid the price for a hopelessly crippled G.O.P. campaign, lost to conservative Democratic Congressman Clair Engle...
Connecticut: Ex-Congressman Thomas J. Dodd turned a cautiously predicted victory into an overwhelming one, blasted Incumbent Republican Senator William Purtell out of office...
Delaware: Conservative Republican "Honest John" Williams, 54, beat down the substantial threat of ex-Governor Elbert N. Carvel, 48, to win a third term...
Indiana: In a big switch for a Republican state-and still vindicating insistent newspaper polls-Evansville's Democratic Mayor R. (for Rupert) Vance Hartke, 39, overran Governor Harold Handley, 48, who was bedeviled by recession ills, high taxes and highway scandals...