Word: thye
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...religious lines. In Pennsylvania Democrat David Lawrence became the first Catholic Governor in history. In California Catholic Pat Brown was elected Governor by a landslide. And in Minnesota, where Catholicism had long been considered a fatal handicap outside St. Paul and Minneapolis, Catholic Eugene McCarthy beat Republican Senator Edward Thye, a Lutheran (with a Catholic wife), by 57,000 votes. In New York, where the Catholic vote is supposed to be powerful, the voters pulled a switch, defeated Democratic Senatorial Candidate Frank Hogan, a Catholic. Said Iowa's Congressman Coad, himself a Disciples of Christ minister: "I think...
...went to work with State Chairman William Coleman, spent two years building up an effective organization, during the campaign held at least seven seminars in every congressional district to teach workers the best vote-hunting techniques. In Minnesota Democratic Representative Eugene McCarthy's capture of Republican Ed Thye's senatorial seat was the harvest of years of organizational planning (see Minnesota). The organizational lesson: party precinct work...
...Humphrey strode into the headquarters of the Democratic-Farmer- Labor Party in Minneapolis to congratulate Five-Term Congressman Eugene McCarthy for winning Minnesota's second senate seat. Humphrey knew his voters; as the hours rolled by, McCarthy rolled to a 70,000 margin victory over Stassenite Republican Ed Thye, and the D.F.L.'s popular Governor, Orville Freeman, roared to re-election by 161,000 votes for a third term. Long before dawn it was clear that for the first time since the Depression, Minnesota's three top offices were in the hands of Democrats: Humphrey, 47, Freeman...
...They Won. Characteristically, the D.F.L.'s detail planning for Gene McCarthy's victory began last May. The problem: Republican Senator Thye, 62, two-term Eisenhower Republican incumbent, had a great personal following of fellow Scandinavians, fellow Lutherans, fellow farmers; the D.F.L.'s challenger Gene McCarthy, onetime St. John's University economics professor and ten-year Congressman, was 1) a Catholic, and 2) an all-too-arch egghead type from St. Paul who might just get massacred by Ed Thye in the farm counties. The D.F.L. decided that folksy Governor Freeman, a lead-pipe cinch for reelection...
...into a hands-down victory for Congressman Eugene McCarthy, 42, who buried forever the legend that a Roman Catholic could not be elected to statewide office in Minnesota, rode the well-oiled Democrat-Farmer-Labor machine to a thoroughgoing victory over the Republicans' two-term incumbent, Ikeman Ed Thye...