Word: romneys
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...house in Grosse Pointe and introducing the Supremes at the State Fair. Williams is still popular enough to win a Democratic primary and almost any statewide election without difficulty. If he is not able to run for the Senate, he might choose the race against Republican Governor George Romney. Romney will certainly not run for Senator; a man who believes so devoutly in his own infallibility could never stand being number 99, even in the United States Senate...
Only if Williams does not run for Governor will Cavanagh have an open avenue. But in the middle of the avenue will be standing lion-like George Romney, his graying temples glinting in the sunlight. Romney will be a tough opponent, but not as unbeatable as metaphor and newsmagazine suggest...
...Romney never demonstrated real vote-getting power with Michigan voters until he beat long-time Democratic State Chairman Neil Staebler by 380,000 votes last year, in the face of the Johnson landslide. But in 1964 a unique combination of factors--pervasive prosperity, a horror of Barry Goldwater, the recent death of President Kennedy--led people in most states to vote incumbents, of either party, in unprecedented proportions. Voters with little party identification or interest in politics, voters who form the pivotal "undecided" segment of the electorate, swung almost unanimously to incumbents...
...just these "undecided" voters who gave George Romney his extraordinary margin. The usually accurate Detroit News poll taken just before the 1964 election gave Romney 48 per cent, Staebler 44, with the rest undecided. The final result was Romney 56, Staebler 44. Romney must have received something like 95 per cent of the undecided vote...
...primary-winning Republican of the other faction. In New York City, Conservative William Buckley now figures to get about 12% of this year's vote for mayor, a considerable part of it at the expense of Republican and Liberal Party Candidate John Lindsay. Michigan's Governor George Romney, who refused to support Goldwater, now has national aspirations of his own, and is traveling about the nation making inspirational speeches about party unity; many unforgiving Republicans are positively smacking their lips in anticipation of the revenge they will take on him for his defection in '64. In Miami...