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...Meyner Reelected...
NEWARK, N.J., Nov. 5--Democratic Gov. Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey was re-elected to a second term tonight...
...effort to defeat Incumbent Democratic Governor Robert Baumle Meyner next week in the key U.S. election of 1957, the G.O.P. had also called out Labor Secretary James P. . Mitchell, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton and New Jersey's Senator Clifford Case. But the busiest campaigner of them all was energetic Malcolm Forbes, 38, who was trying to dramatize issues in a state that Bob Meyner has governed blandly but well...
Forbes took a gamble on the growing national discontent over big-labor brass, tagged Meyner as a tool of the state's C.I.O. bosses, hoped thereby to pick up some rank-and-file votes. He played relentlessly on Meyner's record budget (up $21 million since Meyner took office), warned New Jersey to "Get a new governor or get new taxes." For his part, Democrat Meyner continued to campaign like a man with his ears plugged. Confident that he would win, he did everything he could to avoid rocking the boat. Anxious to prove that he could...
...contrast to the thousands tumbling into the Nixon-Forbes rallies last week, Meyner was drawing poor crowds. In Jersey City advance Democratic scouts hastily combined five meetings into one in a hall seating 75, then produced an overflow audience. Nonetheless, the polls were showing Meyner a winner: a Princeton Research Service straw vote gave him 49% of the vote, Forbes 43%, with the remainder undecided. In Newark, bookies changed their odds' on a Meyner victory from...