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Johnson and Humphrey belittled the threat of mid-term congressional losses, which the party in power traditionally suffers. "Our men don't know where some get this information that there is going to be any great difficulty this year," the President told reporters. "I guess it must be the wish is father to the thought, or maybe you people promote some of this doubt." Ohio Representative Mike Kirwan, 79, longtime chairman of the Democratic House Campaign Committee, was less sanguine. "We've got a job on our hands this year," he warned. "Barry Goldwater isn't running...
Every two years Massachusetts voters grow disgusted with their Governor and elect a new one. The new one invariably spends his first year repaying campaign debts and favors. At mid-term--straight with the world--he steps courageously forward and advances his legislative program of "reform and progress." The second year is devoted to retreating hurriedly from the program and to acquiring new debts, all in a headlong attempt to stop making enemies. The attempt, which invariably infuriates the voters, always fails. And Massachusetts elects a new Governor, hoping that this time he will be a "strong...
There has never been anything quite like it. In a mid-term election campaign, the President of the U.S. is barnstorming the nation, looking, acting and sounding as though he himself were a candidate for county clerk...
...Give Mac the sack," cried the crowds in Orpington, a longtime Tory stronghold in suburban Kent. In a mid-term by-election, the district was captured last week by a pugnacious, 33-year-old Liberal candidate who piled up a massive, 7,855-vote majority (total voters: 43,187) over an exceptionally able Conservative opponent. Following three other by-election setbacks for the party in a week, Orpington was the worst defeat that Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Conservatives have suffered since they took office eleven years ago. Said Party Chairman Iain Macleod: "These are daggers thrust...
George Wald, professor of Biology and head of the course, disclosed yesterday that only a fraction of a point separated the mean averages posted by the two groups at mid-term, with the biology concentrators and pre-med students doing slightly better...