Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such was the Democratic Senate victory that it will be virtually impossible for Republicans to recapture control of the Senate in 1960; not enough Democrats will be up for re-election in non-Southern states to permit the G.O.P. to make up its 1958 deficit. When the 86th Congress convenes in January, a Republican President will be confronted by the heaviest opposition-party majority in this century...
...first returns. The sun had barely set in the Pacific when Democrats got the news of a stunning party sweep in Connecticut. Then came word that Vermont had sent its first Democrat to Congress in 106 years. The Democratic bandwagon came to a screeching halt in New York, where Republican Nelson Rockefeller, after a remarkable personal campaign, carried the G.O.P. ticket to a vital win. But the Democrats regained their momentum moving westward, and climaxed their victory with the overwhelming defeat of Republican William Knowland for Governor in California...
...England, chronic economic problems obviously played a major part in Democratic gains and sharply reduced Republican margins. In West Virginia, hard hit by recession, Democrats easily won two Senate seats. In New York, Rockefeller successfully managed to blame state economic problems on Democratic Governor Averell Harriman...
Labor unions poured in money and effort as rarely before against right-to-work laws and proposals-and the results came to exciting focus in the Democratic victories in such generally Republican states as Indiana and Ohio. Economic hotspots, e.g., Indiana's South Bend district with its hundreds of unemployed Studebaker workers, took out their resentment on Republicans. Farmers, despite their own upturning economy, failed to return to their historic Republicanism in nearly enough numbers to make up the difference. Only in the South, with its improving economy, did Republicans come near holding their own in the congressional elections...
Notable Failures. Admitting defeat within four hours after the Eastern polling places had closed, Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn grimly promised that the campaign for the 1960 elections would "begin on November 5, 1958." From the Republican standpoint, it would have to. The 1958 elections proved that party organization work is a fulltime job, that last-minute campaign efforts are not enough. President Eisenhower, entering the campaign in its last weeks, notably failed-as he had failed in 1954-to reverse the Democratic trends in California, West Virginia, Kansas, Iowa and Colorado (and Ike's own Pennsylvania Congressman, Republican...