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...among the ovations, there were reminders that all is not well between Barry and a lot of leading Republicans. In New York, neither Governor Nelson Rockefeller nor Senator Kenneth Keating showed up to share the platform. In Cleveland, Ohio's Republican Governor James Rhodes and Senate Candidate Bob Taft were both absent. During a day-long tour of western Pennsylvania, Republican Senator Hugh Scott was nowhere in sight. In Illinois, Gubernatorial Candidate Chuck Percy thought it best to ignore Barry's visit to Belleville...
...Gale McGee REPUBLICANS Paul Fannin George Murphy John Lodae John Williams Claude Kirk Hiram Fong D.Russell Bontrager Clifford Mclntire J. Glenn Beall Howard Whitmore Jr. Mrs. Elly Peterson Wheelock Whitney No candidate Jean Bradshaw Alex Blewett Roman Hruska *Paul Laxalt Bernard Shanley Edwin Mechem Kenneth Keating Tom Kleppe Robert Taft Jr. Bud Wilkinson *Hugh Scott Ronald Lagueux Dan Kuykendall Howard Baker Jr. George Bush Ernest Wilkinson Winston Prouty Richard May Lloyd Andrews Cooper Benedict Wilbur Renk John Wold * Leading, but final results still in doubt...
...Robert Taft Jr. has a name that is magic in Ohio, but it took more than magic to buck the Johnson tide, which peaked at better than 700,000. For Republican Representative Taft, 47, the problem was not just incumbent Senator Stephen M. Young, an aging (75) me too echo of Lyndon Johnson. A greater obstacle was the all-too-likely possibility that voters might not be able to distinguish between conservative Re- publicanism Taft-style, and Goldwater-style. Taft was honest enough to admit that he agreed with Goldwater in some areas, particularly fiscal. But he went...
PRESIDENT Johnson 1,816,621 Goldwater 1,143,323 U.S. SENATOR Taft (R) 1,472,481 Young...
...single lever in a voting booth or marking a single X on a paper ballot to choose all candidates, instead requires that voters indicate each choice separately. So do 22 other states.* That makes coattail riding difficult, could mean the difference, for example, to Republican Senatorial Candidates Robert A. Taft in Ohio and George Murphy in California...