Word: stassen
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This appears to be a great year for losers in U.S. politics. Last week, in Indiana's presidential primary, Barry Goldwater rolled up 260,557 votes, won all the state's 32 Republican Convention delegates. But who got the headlines? Why, none other than GOPerennial Harold Stassen, who got 104,200 of what can only be described as protest votes. On the Democratic side, Governor Matthew Welsh, a favorite-son stand-in for President Johnson, amassed 368,401 votes. But who got the headlines? Why, none other than Alabama's trouble-hunting Governor George Wallace, with...
...Oregon schedule and privately crossed the state off his list. Nelson Rockefeller was planning an all-out mail and telephone, radio and TV campaign in a desperate attempt to gain a foothold. Rocky's people bravely explained that the situation paralleled the primary campaign of 1948, when Harold Stassen seemed to have had the state all wrapped up only to lose a last-minute saturation campaign to Tom Dewey...
Most Republican observers doubt that Rockefeller can duplicate Dewey's surprise victory, which was achieved mostly by a trouncing that Dewey gave Stassen in a nationwide radio debate. Lodge need not take any such risk as a debate. And his absence from Oregon apparently works to his advantage in other ways. Explains a top Oregon Republican: "There's the matter of overexposure. That's not something that either Rockefeller or Goldwater can correct, but it's there. The glamour, the mystique, has run thin. Lodge, on the other hand, is the personification of mystique...
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...Sena tor Barry Goldwater and Governor Nelson Rockefeller." But in the same city, the Detroit Free Press took quite an opposite view. "Here he is again," said the Free Press's political columnist, Judd Arnett, "the most successful political failure of our times, a sort of Harold Stassen with glamour, riding on a wave of publicity as the result of an epidemic of late-winter madness among the snowbound burghers of New Hampshire. They must have voted for Henry Cabot for kicks...