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...their main credential their wholehearted support of Democrat John F. Kennedy. But when the voting ended last week for the U.S. Senate seat vacated this year by Lyndon Johnson, the result was a repudiation of the New Frontier. The top two, who will soon be matched in a runoff: Conservative Republican John Tower, 35, with 326,400 votes, and Conservative Democrat William Blakley, 62, the interim incumbent, with 191,000 votes...
Despite his impressive plurality, John Tower faces trouble aplenty in the runoff. Last week he had the benefit of being the only authentic Republican among the serious candidates; Blakley suffered from the split Democratic vote. Next month the chances are strong that enough Democrats will combine behind Blakley to send him back to Washington. But in any event, Texans can be certain that their next Senator will be an Old Frontiersman through and through...
...local editor), and only 41% of the voters turned out. But the election did not quite work out according to plan. Poulson led, but his 179,273 votes were nearly 100,000 less than the combined total of his opponents and he was forced into a May 31 runoff election with former Democratic Congressman Sam Yorty, a lawyer and persistent politician who has been out of office since...
With such a disparate force in the field, no one candidate is likely to get a majority of all the votes cast on the April 4 election, so Texans will have to vote again in a runoff between the top two winners. So far, none of the Serious Six looks like a runaway candidate, but Republican Tower hopes to get into the runoff by winning the Republicans and those Democratic conservatives who are disillusioned or confused by the babble of oratory among the Democratic rivals...
Winner by some 6,000 votes in a Democratic primary runoff election that will surely plop him into the U.S. House of Representatives next January, Louisiana's ex-Governor Earl Long, a hard-living 65, was borne by stretcher from victory to a hospital. His self-diagnosis: ptomaine poisoning from eating some very ripe pork. Drawled Ole Earl of his triumph over Incumbent Harold McSween in the back-country Eighth District race: "Ah don't think it helped McSween with all that about mah bein' crazy...