Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrats have been hobbled in their anti-Agnew campaigning by a lack of prominent national figures not preoccupied with their own reelection, but they have answered fire on occasion. Sargent Shriver labeled Agnew "this nation's great divider," and the venerable John McCormack, who is about to retire as'Speaker of the House, recently accused the Administration of "playing on people's fears and dodging the issues." Said McCormack: "In all of my experience in campaigns, I have never witnessed such wholesale, patently contrived efforts to smear an entire party as that practiced by the Republicans...
...Sargent rode the crest of a 15,000 vote margin in metropolitan Boston to even higher pluralities in Boston suburbs and outstate towns, beating Boston Mayor Kevin White by nearly 300,000 votes...
Massachusetts voters chose personalities over parties yesterday, re-electing Democratic Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Republican Governor Francis W. Sargent by surprisingly lop-sided margins...
...Sargent carried his Lieutenant Governor nominee, Donald Dwight, into office on the new no-split ballot instituted this year for the two top spots. Democratic incumbents, however, had little trouble maintaining their traditional hold on the lower state offices of Attorney General, Secretary of State, Treasurer, and State Auditor...
...general, the Massachusetts elections were conducted far from the Nixon-Agnew dominated national spotlight. Both White and Sargent ran what was more than one time termed long and lackluster campaigns, emphasizing state and local issues...