Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Burns's first mistake was his unsubstantiated charge that former State Senator Scott Kelly, a rugged upcountry conservative who ran a strong third in the original Democratic primary, had offered to sell his support in the runoff for $500,000. Burns's idea was to discredit Kelly; instead, he got Kelly hopping mad. Attacking the Governor for what he called "the big lie," the bluff country boy took to the backwoods to support Burns's city-boy opponent, Miami Mayor Robert King High, 42. Still trying to undercut Kelly in the outback, Burns then raised the race...
...vote effectively polarized the whites, whose unexpectedly unified vote sent Lurleen Wallace soaring ahead of Flowers and all eight other opponents. Without the open threat of a monolithic black ballot, white Alabamians' votes in the primary might well have been sufficiently fragmented among other candidates to force a runoff election...
...local elections, Alabama's Negroes voted with greater success. Fifty-two Negroes had filed for county or legislative offices; none won outright, but 24 at least managed to make the runoff elections on May 31. All face grueling man-to-man battles against white opponents. Even more significant in a sense were two Negro defeats. In the Black Belt's Wilcox and Greene Counties, where Negro voters outnumber whites, incumbent sheriffs-both white, both considered fair-minded law officers-faced Negro candidates for the first time. Far from affirming the bugaboo of Southern whites that "black votes mean...
...Grow with Flowers." George figured that Alabamians would probably split their votes among the nine other Democratic contestants, giving Lurleen at best a plurality, thus forcing her into a runoff with the second-place candidate. He assumed that her opponent would be State Attorney General Richmond Flowers, 47, who alone among the candidates had made a vigorous bid for the state's swelling Negro vote. "I do not believe that the Negro is inferior," Flowers told eager Negro audiences. "I am a man of the law and, like it or not, I am going to follow the law. Every...
...thrown into the newly elected Congress, since Montenegro seemed to lack the absolute majority required by law. The congressional balloting, scheduled for May 5, would probably choose between Méndez Montenegro and Runner-up Aguilar, both of whom claim they can marshal a congressional majority for the final runoff...