Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Biggest Democratic margin: California's Governor-elect Brown, 1,012,000. Biggest Republican margin: New York's Governor-elect Rockefeller...
...biggest Republican winners-New York's Governor-elect Nelson Rockefeller, Pennsylvania's Senator-elect Hugh Scott, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, Oregon's Governor-elect Mark Hatfield-had one thing in common: highly attractive personalities that they effectively displayed to the voters. At the same time, the Democratic Party was far more successful in finding young, attractive candidates nationwide. In Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, for example, the six newly elected Democratic Congressmen averaged only 42 in age, as against 60 for their Republican opponents. Republican Hatfield best explained the meaning of personality to his party...
Columnist DAVID LAWRENCE: AS sure as day follows night, if the if, Republican party advertises its nominee as a "modern Republican" next time, it will increase the stay-at-home Republican vote, and surely elect the Democratic Presidential nominee...
...toward 1960. Nixon's political situation had changed overnight. On Nov. 4 he stood virtually unchallenged for the Republican presidential nomination in 1960. On Nov. 5 he could look over his shoulder and see a red-hot potential contender in the person of New York's Governor-elect Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, who ran up a sensational 557,000-vote win in Democratic territory even as California Republicans-including a Nixon protege for attorney general-were getting shredded all across the board...
Plainly Personal. In part, the Democratic wins followed the tradition favoring the party out of White House power in off-year elections. But even more, the 1958 election was based on bread-and-butter issues and on personalities. In state after state, voters showed themselves willing to split their tickets to elect the most attractive candidates, regardless of party. Rockefeller's win was plainly personal-and so was Knowland's defeat...