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...first to arrive. Hartford is heavily Democratic, so there is not much question which candidates will be in the lead there, but experts will be very interested in the exact size of the Democratic majorities. If, for example, the first half of Hartford's polling places give Abraham A. Ribicoff, the Democratic candidate for governor, a lead of more than 14,000 votes over Republican Governor John Davis Lodge '25, then the G.O.P. will lose the Connecticut governorship, and probably Congress along with it. Such early-evening harbingers have accurately predicted national results in the past...
...these first gubernatorial returns from Hartford will be significant as more than indicators of national trends. For the Lodge-Ribicoff contest is itself worthy of interest, if only because it has changed within two weeks from a dull, gentlemanly discussion of issues to a hot fight about questions of race and religion...
Faced with a lack of issues, Ribicoff decided to base his campaign on his own considerable personal appeal and his record in public service. The record is an unusually good one. The son of Jewish immigrant parents, Ribicoff, after working his way through college and law school, served four years in Congress and compiled a voting record of independent liberalism. In 1952 he ran for the Senate but lost to Eisenhower's coattails and Senator Prescott Bush. His showing was so impressive, however, that John M. Bailey, the state Democratic boss, handpicked him to oppose Lodge in this race...
...backing of canny State Chairman John M. Bailey, and in a January poll, he ran ahead of his closest competitor, ex-Congressman Abraham A. Ribicoff. But while Bowles pondered, the politicians lost patience; while he played Hamlet, Ribicoff played Romeo, wooed and won party support. Even Bailey switched. At a Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Hartford, Ribicoff got a bigger hand for standing up and bowing than Bowles got for making a speech...
...Senator William Benton, a onetime adman, that Benton conceded three hours after the polls closed. In the race for the second Senate seat (a four-year term to replace the late Brien McMahon), Prescott Bush, member of the same Wall Street brokerage firm as Averell Harriman, beat Representative Abraham Ribicoff, the best Democratic vote-getter in the state...