Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month ago former Governor Ellis Arnall, a moderate with a distinctly liberal image, ran ahead of five other candidates by 55,000 votes in the Democratic gubernatorial primary--a comfortable margin, but not large enough to avoid a runoff with staunch segregationist Lester Maddox...
...weeks later in the runoff, Maddox startled everybody by defeating Arnall by 70,000 votes. The moderate Democrats were left in the cold. Overshadowing the whole primary, however, were the Republicans and Howard ("Bo") Callaway, a segregationist and Gold-water conservative who loomed this summer as a solid favorite to win the November general election no matter whom his Democratic opponent happened...
...Carter possesses all the boyish charm and warmth that Arnall so desperately lacks, but until the last two weeks of the campaign, Carter struggled against the damning popular assumption that he was too little known on a statewide basis. But, in fact, Maddox barely edged out Carter for the runoff spot...
...other candidates directed their attacks at Arnall, the frontrunner, while Arnall carefully concentrated his campaigning on Callaway to avoid alienating the other Democratic candidates' supporters. At worst, Arnall strategists expected only to be forced into a runoff before winning decisively...
...streets-it will hurt us," declared Vice President Hubert Humphrey as he stumped California and three other Western states. Just how much it might hurt Democratic prospects was demonstrated on the other side of the continent the same day. In Georgia, moderate former Governor Ellis Arnall entered a runoff for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination as a heavy favorite against Lester Maddox, a strident racist who first made headlines by refusing to integrate his Pickrick restaurant in Atlanta after passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Maddox became a hero to the racists at that time by giving white customers...