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...Keating's heaviest burden. With a record 8,500,000 voters on the rolls this year, Johnson is expected to win the state by somewhere between 750,000 and 2,000,000. It is taken for granted that Bobby will run far, far behind Johnson on the Democratic ticket, but for Keating to have a chance it will require ticket splitting of heroic and historic proportions. In this, Ken Keating finds himself in the same dilemma as Republican candidates in a score of other states. For as Election Year 1964 nears its end, the big political question is less whether...
Fortunately for Keating, New Yorkers are confirmed ticket splitters, as Republican Senator Jacob Javits, the state's best vote getter and a staunch Keating ally, proved in 1962 when he was re-elected by 983,000 votes while Democrat Arthur Levitt, running for comptroller, was re-elected by 791,000-a split of 1,774,000. New York, in fact, makes it impossible to vote a straight ticket by pulling a 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...
...Lyndon have always been able to restrain their enthusiasm for one another, and anyhow, Johnson, who understandably wants to be known for his own achievements, had pointedly advised longtime Kennedy Aide Kenny O'Donnell only one month after Dallas: "I'll never have a Kennedy on the ticket...
...Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and West Virginia. There are also seven states where ballots have a separate section for the presidential election but permit the voter to choose a straight ticket for all other offices. They are Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Vermont and Wisconsin...
There will probably never be a return to the days of a century ago when the dominant Republicans could offer a ticket so ignorant of ethnic feeling and geographical distribution, but the Commonwealth, one hopes, will tire of its simple pleasures of sensational disclosures of corruption and endless indictments, and of voting for the end of a candidate's name. However, one suspects it wouldn't have it any other...