Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidate. Wallace will almost certainly take a few states, with Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana his surest bets. Humphrey might collect Tennessee, Arkansas and possibly Georgia, states in which Wallace and Nixon are likely to cut into each other's vote. Nixon has good prospects in Texas, Florida, Virginia and the Carolinas. But the dominant characteristic of the South this year is that of a region in flux-uncertain, hard to please, and even harder to predict. Therein lies its power...
...bottom fifth of the alphabetical listing, the fight was really over. After West Virginia, Nixon had 650, and Wisconsin's 30, won in that state's primary, broke through the magic number to make it 680. Wyoming added its twelve, for a first-ballot total of 692, compared with 277 for Rockefeller, 182 for Reagan and 182 sprinkled elsewhere. It was even less of a race than it seemed. Nixon had reserve votes in several favorite-son delegations that he could have called upon if necessary. Minnesota Congressman Ancher Nelsen, one of the nine whips working the floor for Nixon...
Certainly the Marylander will be no asset to the ticket among Negro voters, although it is doubtful that Nixon will get much black support in any case. Agnew may be helpful, on the other hand, in the border regions and some Southern states, such as Virginia, Texas, Florida and North Carolina, in which Nixon has a fighting chance to best George Wallace. This is what Nixon men call a ''peripheral strategy," more or less conceding the Deep South to Wallace. To capture the Presidency, however, the Republicans must sweep much of the West as well, while carrying some...
SLOWLY, the roll call proceeded down through the alphabet. When it came to W, West Virginia, then Wisconsin, spirits in the Rockefeller suite at the Hotel Americana fell as flat as the champagne that had earlier been ordered for a victory celebration. Bitterly disappointed as he was, Nelson Rockefeller seemed almost relieved at the same time. Hugging his wife Happy, he whispered, "Now we can really relax." Stepping out into the hall a few minutes later, he sighed to no one in particular...
...Democratic gubernatorial primary, Jim Johnson's wife Virginia, also a segregationist ("Aren't we all?"), squeezed toward a runoff with the favored candidate, State Representative Marion Crank. Crank, whose campaign is well fueled by utility interests (he is dubbed "the Natural Gas Candidate"), is expected to win the runoff and then lose to Rockefeller, since Arkansas traditionally gives its Governors a second two-year term...