Word: sponges
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...opposition, a number of more progressive Democrats also won statewide office?notably Buford Ellington, elected Governor of Tennessee, and South Carolina's Governor Robert E. McNair, who as Lieutenant Governor acceded to the top job last year when Governor Donald Russell resigned. In Virginia, the big winner was William Spong, the moderate Democrat who ousted Senator A. Willis Robertson in the primary...
...VIRGINIA U.S. SENATOR (4 years) Byrd (D)* (winner) Traylor (R) U.S. SENATOR (6 years) Spong (D) (winner) Ould (R) U.S. House (10): +2 Republican...
...made an inviting target for State Senator William B. Spong Jr., 45, who had opposed conservative Byrd policies in the legislature for years, and now appealed for a "fresh, positive approach." Spong got a plurality of 764 out of a total vote...
Rather, it has been youth vs. age (Spong is 45) and a sort of mixed liberalism against a newly-defined conservatism. "On fiscal matters I'm as conservative as he (Byrd Jr.) is," Boothe has declared. "But where funds were available (in the state senate) and needed--truly needed--I was willing to appropriate them." Byrd Jr., who likes to talk about what he's doing in the U.S. Senate rather than what he did in the Virginia senate, calls himself a "forward-looking conservative...
...SPONG is a pragmatist who is projecting a kind of semi-Kennedy im-11GOVERNOR MILLS GODWIN...