Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York's incumbent Governor Hugh Carey, 59, with a scandal-free and creditable record as the state's chief executive, trailed his silver-haired Republican opponent, Perry Duryea, 57, until the final weeks of the campaign. Duryea then refused to disclose fully his personal finances and to make public his tax returns. While no improprieties were charged, Carey hit hard on the issue and found the electorate in no mood to tolerate secrecy in such matters...
Ella Grasso, 59, also had some problems with her prickly personality. But her record of fiscal austerity prevented Republican Congressman Ronald Sarasin from making a believable antispending pitch to Connecticut voters. She defeated Sarasin easily and will remain one of the country's two women Governors. (The other is Washington's Dixy...
...advantage of running with Thomas P. O'Neill III, 34, who was seeking the lieutenant governorship and who happens to be the son of Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. With the Speaker's help and with heavy support from blue-collar voters, King beat Republican blueblood Francis W. Hatch Jr., by more than 100,000 votes...
...across the state with a special surtax to pay for the controversial Seabrook nuclear power plant. Thomson had refused to veto a bill prohibiting that special charge and was suddenly cast as a less vigilant opponent of added taxation than his opponent, Democrat Hugh Gallen. An independent candidate, former Republican Governor Wesley Powell, drained some 12,000 Republican votes away from the Governor, contributing to Gallen's 10,400-vote victory margin and helping to end Thomson's rule...
...lose even without Carter's help. Former Virginia Attorney General Andrew Miller never invited Carter in, though the President was willing. He lost by a slim margin to former Navy Secretary John Warner, thus casting Elizabeth Taylor in yet another role, Senate wife. In Mississippi, Cochran became the first Republican Senator in almost a century, partly because the black vote was split Democrat Maurice Dantin and independent Black Civil Rights Leader Charles Evers...