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...Republicans' mid-term resurgence gained a little extra luster last week. In Juneau, Democrat William Egan, 52, Alaska's only elected Governor in eight years of statehood, formally acknowledged his defeat by Republican Walter J. Hickel, 47, a hotel and construction millionaire who landed in Anchorage in 1940 with 37? in his pocket. Egan originally conceded the day after the election, only to withdraw his concession when Hickel's lead narrowed. Last week's official canvass put the vote at 33,145 for Hickel, 32,065 for Egan and 1,085 for an independent. The outcome...
...good point, but even when the batting average was compared with mid-term 1962, big labor took a beating. In the last mid-term election, 72% of the nominees whom C.O.P.E. supported for the Senate were elected, as were 60% of its choices for the House and for gubernatorial seats. The winning percentages this year were 50% for the Senate, 54% for the House and a feeble 31% in the governors' races. This despite the fact that C.O.P.E. spent just under $1,000,000 this year compared with $800,000 in 1962. Nearly all C.O.P.E.-backed candidates were Democrats...
...with the desired effect of convincing friend and foe alike that the American people--Republicans and Democrats--are solidly behind the President. In the President's mind, this move should make it abundantly clear to both Hanoi and our Asian allies that the defeat of many Democrats in the mid-term elections does not bely any widespread popular disaffection with the Johnson Asian policy; and more important, that American resolve to persist in Vietnam has not been dampened...
...candidates' canned homilies and tanned profiles intrude irksomely on program schedules. The biennial profusion of campaign billboards and posters stipples the land that Lady Bird wants to beautify and Lyndon yearns to own. Yet the art of politics is not immutable, and this year's mid-term elections highlight a host of developments that are changing the nature of campaigning...
...some extent, of course, L.BJ. has fallen victim to the mid-term doldrums that descend on most Presidents. He has also, doubtless, been hurt by a variety of troubles-the Viet Nam war, rising prices, big-city Negro riots-that are only partially of his making, if at all. He suffers nonetheless from a unique and painful handicap that Washington observers have come to call "the personality problem...