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...career may well be ended, but she could have been weeping for Minnesota Democrats too. The once-proud party of Hubert Humphrey, created in 1944 when he merged Democrats and Farm-Laborites into the Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party, had been humiliated by one of its own, Governor Karl F. Rolvaag. Rolvaag, dumped by the party organization, decided to run for a second term anyway, and clobbered Keith in the September 13 primary by a margin of more than two to one to become the now-chastened Democrats' candidate for Governor. The blow to party prestige was compounded that night...
Minnesota politics has slithered into the national press twice this year -- in June when the DFL convention refused to renominate Rolvaag, endorsing instead his Lieutenant Governor, Keith, and three months later when Rolvaag won the primary so decisively. Actually neither event was in the least surprising at the time it occurred...
...Minnesota, a Minneapolis Tribune survey of the gubernatorial race showed that Republican Harold LeVander has taken the lead, 51% to 45%, over Governor Karl Rolvaag, choice of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party...
Karl Fritjof Rolvaag is balding, jowly and dumpy, looks at least a decade older than his 53 years, and in public wears the bemused air of a Norwegian farmer lost in the big city. In his first term as Governor of Minne sota, Rolvaag seemed so ineffectual that an opinion poll last February gave him the unqualified approval of only 9% of the voters. In June he was summarily rejected even by his own Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which chose Lieut. Governor A. M. ("Sandy") Keith, 37, as its gubernatorial candidate. Last week, nonetheless, Rolvaag won the D.F.L. nomination...
...large measure the upset reflected Rolvaag's ability to communicate his middle-aged sense of outrage at being dumped by the party. Challenging Keith to a primary fight, he crisscrossed the state, protesting that he was being euchred out of the Statehouse by a young man's ambition. "Let the people decide," he demanded; and last week they did, giving Rolvaag 315,734 votes to Keith's 146,926. Hubert Humphrey, a founding member of D.F.L. who backed Keith after the June conclave, hustled to knit the party together for November, when Rolvaag's Republican opponent...