Word: runoff
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...dirty campaign, as Wallace successfully resorted to a racist theme and pandered to white fears and hatreds in winning the Democratic primary runoff, thus assuring his election in November. He repeatedly raised the specter of a "bloc vote" that would "control politics in Alabama for the next 50 years" if he lost. When his audience seemed less sophisticated, George spelled it out: "the black bloc vote." His newspaper ads bluntly urged whites to "vote for your own kind." Vicious rumors also were spread-apparently without Wallace's approval and certainly without any foundation-about the sex lives of Brewer...
...Alabama's image, blanket denunciations of the state's voters are unfair. Wallace got only 51.5% of the total. His margin was a mere 32,000 votes out of the 1,074,000 cast-a comedown from the 72,000 votes by which he won a similar runoff in 1962 and the 237,000 by which his late wife Lurleen won the Democratic primary for Governor in 1966. More than half a million voters refused to go along with George this time, although possibly half of those were blacks. In one black precinct in Jefferson County, Brewer...
Brewer, a calm, effective but unexciting Governor, must bear some of the blame for his loss. After shocking Wallace by topping him in the seven-man Democratic primary last month, Brewer campaigned for the runoff in such a low-keyed manner that Wallace grabbed all of the attention. A racial moderate -from the Southern viewpoint-Brewer had no desire to embrace the black vote openly or to engage in racial arguments with Wallace. His strategy was a lofty "Mr. Clean" approach that even ruled out attacks on the previous Wallace administrations. "You can't fight Wallace with one hand...
John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, splashed down second to a millionaire who was a political unknown when the campaign for the Ohio Democratic Senate nomination began. In Alabama, George Wallace earned a place in a runoff for Governor - but trailed the incumbent, his onetime protege, Albert Brewer...
...room-is how much confidence the President personally inspires. In that test Nixon won the approval of 59% of the executives polled. The figure indicated that Nixon might not get as big a vote from big business the next time around. Though the President won handily in a test runoff against Senator Edward Kennedy, 89% to 6%, and Hubert Humphrey, 85%-14%, he lost the support of 10% when paired with Senator Edmund Muskie. Nixon would get 74% of the executives' votes, compared with Muskie's 23%. Harris concluded that "today's grumblings about the President could...