Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action is indeed strange, as it is all too often my father's name, not Sen. Keating's that is missing. The far-righters would never be guilty of such sin of omission. Again showing your pro-Democratic bias, you demean Sen. Keating's repudiation of the Republican national ticket, attributing it out of hand to expediency instead of principle. Had you been aware of the tremendous pressure, and vicious mail such a stand elicits, I am not sure you would have shrugged it off so easily. Then, too, why not play up Robert Kennedy's poor relations with London...
...fact that he is a Democrat in what shapes up as a big Democratic year. Lyndon Johnson has a healthy lead in California over Barry Goldwater. The state's registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by a big margin: 4,736,906 to 3,182,397. Even accounting for ticket splitting and other vagaries of the California voter population, Pierre should be a safe...
Minnesota: Buttressed by Democratic-Farmer-Labor backing, Incumbent Eugene J. McCarthy, 48, would be heavily favored over Republican Wheelock Whitney, 38, mayor of the Minneapolis suburb of Wayzata, even without Favorite Son Hubert Humphrey on the national ticket...
Okio: A magic name and a potent G.O.P. organization are 47-year-old Robert A. Taft Jr.'s trump cards, but Goldwater's name on top of the ticket is a deuce. Even so, it would probably take a 500,000-vote Johnson win to sweep crusty Incumbent Stephen M. Young, 75, into a second term. Leaning strongly to Taft...
...Negro newspapers, the Pittsburgh Courier, editorialized for Johnson. Also in the L.B.J. column were the Louisville Courier-Journal, and New Hampshire's Concord Daily Monitor. LIFE Magazine, which said of L.B.J. last week: "We think he deserves his own full term as President," this week came out for ticket splitting in favor of five G.O.P. Governors and Senators...