Word: zona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fascinating facet of the election was the amazing amount of ticket splitting, as voters chose L.B.J.-and then skipped down the ballot to vote for deserving Republican candidates (see The Senate and The Governors stories). In the end-with the possible exception of salvaging his home state of Ari-zona-all that Goldwater and his devoted band of active amateurs got out of their many months of hard work was the distinction of sufficiently upsetting the voting patterns in the South to carry five states. And he triumphed in those states mostly on the voters' belief that he would...