Word: defeated
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...strengthened in Congress, especially in the Senate. Some new right-wingers (Mississippi's Thad Cochran, Colorado's Bill Armstrong, Jepsen and Humphrey) have swelled the ranks of the old (North Carolina's Jesse Helms, Idaho's James McClure, Texas' John Tower and South Carolina's Strom Thurmond). With the defeat of Edward Brooke in Massachusetts, the Senate's only black, the waning power of the liberal Republicans has been reduced even further. Their only gain is Bill Cohen, who was elected in Maine. Led by Nevada's Paul Laxalt, the conservatives have become a formidable force in the Senate...
Some of the most prominent over-promisers went down to resounding defeat. In the New Jersey Senate race, Jeff Bell, perhaps the most avid proponent of Kemp-Roth, was beaten by former Basketball Star Bill Bradley, who proposed more modest tax cuts. Perry Duryea, the G.O.P. candidate for Governor of New York, promised to increase welfare grants and reduce taxes at the same time. The victorious incumbent, Hugh Carey, refrained from any such foolishness. In Arkansas, Bill Clinton, 32, was elected the nation's youngest Governor, even though he vowed to ask for a tax increase if a referendum reducing...
...near bankruptcy. Rhodes campaigned so hard that he had to rest during the closing days. In the end he won by only 49,109 votes out of 2,839,000 cast. He called this "a landslide," and in a sense it was. Four years ago Rhodes had mistakenly conceded defeat on election night, and then, next morning, discovered that he had won by 11,414 votes...
...Flaherty, 54, decided to run, he made a show of his independence of the Governor and of the entire state Democratic organization. That wasn't enough. A former U.S. attorney in Pittsburgh, Richard Thornburgh, 46, an underdog in the gubernatorial race, staged a comeback in the final weeks to defeat Flaherty by more than 200,000 votes...
While Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke's personal and legal problems were dooming him to defeat, voters installed another new face, Democrat Edward J. King, 53, as Governor. One of the most conservative Democrats elected anywhere outside the South, King had trouble getting support from Bay State liberals, and received only the most lukewarm endorsements from Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter. But King had the advantage of running with Thomas P. O'Neill III, 34, who was seeking the lieutenant governorship and who happens to be the son of Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. With...