Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...state-loan scandal has crippled State Auditor Cloud and the rest of the G.O.P. ticket. At the campaign's outset, Cloud unsuccessfully demanded that two of his running mates, who had accepted political contributions from borrowers of state funds, withdraw. Former Congressman John J. Gilligan, a liberal Democrat, is expected to win easily despite Cloud's needling of him as "Tax-a-billion Gilligan." So heavily do the Republican scandals weigh on Ohio political scales this year that Democrats have a clear shot at control of a vital state. PENNSYLVANIA. Hubert Humphrey could explain the impossibility of shucking...
...Kennedy is 60 per cent. If he can win with this margin or better he will still have a shot at the Presidential sweepstakes in 1972. President Nixon is hoping that the Republican candidate, Si Spaulding, will run well enough (40 per cent or better) to eliminate the Massachusetts Democrat from the national limelight. But Spaulding has a problem: he cannot figure out whether to go to the left to pick up disenchanted liberals or to the right for supporters of arch right winger Col. John McCarthy who lost the primary to Spaulding. Starting out as a strong Administration critic...
Goodell's problems are not only political. He also faces a severe shortage of money while his Democratic opponent, Rep. Richard Ottinger, is a wealthy businessman who spent over $2 million in winning the Democratic primary. Ottinger is as liberal as Goodell, but as a Democrat, and a wealthy one, he can afford...
TEXAS: No matter which way this one goes, Texas will end up with another conservative Senator to complement John Tower. The upset primary victory of Lloyd Benston over liberal Democrat Sen. Ralph Yarborough was a big victory for the conservative wing of the Texas Democratic Party. Yarborough had a strongly liberal record on the war, civil rights and most other issues...
VIRGINIA: Following the breakup of the traditional Byrd machine, a three-way Senate race developed between the incumbent, Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr.; George Rawlings, a liberal Democrat; and Ray Garland, a conservative Republican. The result will determine both who holds the reigns of power in the state and in the once-omnipotent Democratic party...