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...Republicans did (23). In Pittsburgh. Mayor David Leo Lawrence's fourth-term win established another record-breaking plurality. And in Republican New Jersey, where, to dike the Democratic tide, both President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon added weight to the ardent campaigning of Republican Malcolm Forbes, Governor Robert Meyner swamped Forbes (see below...
...York City mayoralty race, Robert Wagner won by the largest margin ever recorded by a candidate for mayor in city history. In New Jersey, Governor Meyner beat Malcolm Forbes by over 200,000 votes and similarly received more votes than any Democrat in New Jersey history. The Democrats, for the first time in twenty years, also captured the State Assembly, where they gained more seats than they have since 1912. The Democrats triumphed in spite of the fact that Eisenhower carried the state by 750,000 votes in last year's election and despite Forbes' importation of big-name Republican...
...main Republican hope in next year's elections is to win Congressional seats in Northern cities by emphasizing the party's stand on the Civil Rights Bill and on Little Rock. The results of last week's vote would seem to indicate the limited effectiveness of this appeal; both Meyner and Wagner strongly carry Negro districts. Northern Democrats have long been associated with the cause of civil rights, and even if on this issue the GOP seems stronger, to assume that the Negro votes solely on the civil rights issue is to insult his civic intelligence and disregard his economic...
...Meyner, who aimed much of his campaign at the Republican and independent vote, ran far ahead of Forbes in Democratic counties and whittled Republican majorities far below normal...
...Meyner led Republican State Sen. Malcolm S. Forbes by 155,000 votes with slightly more than half the ballots counted. Only a year ago President Eisenhower carried New Jersey by 760,000 votes...