Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour after hour the uncertainty continued. Even after midnight, Eastern Standard Time, the division hovered uncannily close in New York, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Virginia, Maine, Mississippi, Hawaii, New Mexico...
...election map tells part of the story. For the first time since 1944, the South was solid again, or nearly so; of the eleven Southern states, all but Virginia came home to the Democratic Party. In the Northeast, most of the populous industrial states-dominated by elements of the coalition-also returned. Throughout the country, blacks, who never left the party, gave Carter overwhelming margins. Union members voted in large numbers for the Democratic candidate. The Irish, Jews and Eastern Europeans were back in the fold, though in smaller numbers than the Democrats had hoped. Italians, perhaps...
Adopting a "run everywhere" strategy for the nomination, Carter entered every state caucus and all but one of the 31 primaries (West Virginia was the exception-and that only because his slate of delegates failed to qualify). In the early days, he recalled later, "I doubt if one out of a thousand of you had ever heard my name. We went into factory shift lines, shopping centers, country courthouses and city halls, livestock sale barns and farmers' markets-to talk a little and listen...
Some hardy Democratic perennials bloomed again at the polls. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Edmund Muskie of Maine, Scoop Jackson of Washington, New Jersey's Harrison Williams, West Virginia's Robert Byrd and Mississippi's John Stennis all won easily. So did Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, the Watergate committee's Republican hair shirt. But one of the Senate's most famous names will be missing. In a stunning defeat, Robert Taft Jr., son and namesake of Ohio's "Mr. Republican," lost to Millionaire Businessman Howard Metzenbaum, whom he had defeated...
...executive in Indiana, and returned to office for the third straight two-year stint Archconservative Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire on his single plank -no taxes. Democratic incumbents were re-elected in Arkansas, Montana and North Dakota, while new candidates won in Missouri, Rhode Island, Utah, Washington and West Virginia. A fresh face also won in North Carolina, where James Hunt, a New South Democrat with an awesome organization, overwhelmed his G.O.P. opponent by a nearly 2-to-l margin. Among the other intriguing victors...