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...impact of the Negro vote was also evident in the gubernatorial race, in which two comparative middle-of-the-roaders-by Mississippi standards-beat former Governor Ross Barnett and four other candidates. Facing each other in the runoff will be State Treasurer William Winter, 44, an able administrator and reluctant segregationist, who won the top spot with 218,045 votes, and Congressman John Bell Williams, 48, a Democrat for Goldwater in 1964, who generally avoided airing his racist views and got 194,230 votes. Despite Winter's early lead, the pros picked Williams as the likely winner, since...
...voting, State Treasurer William Winter and Jackson District Attorney William Waller have the largest Negro support. But if Winter, who is the nearest thing to a moderate, does get the bulk of the Negro vote in the first primary, he may lose much white support in the two-man runoff. A runoff is inevitable because no candidate is close to a majority...
...Waller, who has attacked both civil rights "rabble-rousers" and the "hooded cowards" of the Ku Klux Klan. Waller has twice tried in vain to convict Byron De La Beckwith for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evans. His votes will be Winter's in the likely runoff three weeks from today...
...racist vote will probably be so split today that the "moderate" Winter should be at the top of the balloting, somewhere near the 30 per cent mark. In the runoff, however, it is almost unquestionable that the more militant segregationist--Williams, or possibly Barnett--will win. Both Barnett and Williams have tried to stick the "liberal" deathmark on Winter...
Nonetheless, Miami Beach voters last week rejected Elliott by a vote of 10,692 to 8,455 in a nonpartisan runoff, electing in his place a political novice, Attorney Jay Dermer, 37. Roosevelt (whose losing margin roughly equaled his winning ratio in 1965) may have been a remote casualty of the Middle East war, which had a galvanic effect on Miami Beach residents, a substantial majority of whom are Jewish. While the last of F.D.R.'s sons still in public office used his father's old campaign song, Happy Days Are Here Again, Dermer alternated speeches in Yiddish...