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Ultra-conservatism and reaction having been overwhelmingly rejected by the American people, the Republican party has a unique opportunity to restore a sound and responsible two-party system. The defeat of many Republican moderates and liberals across the nation is a powerful argument against party leaders from the right.
This latent conservative strength raises two questions: Will the moderates be willing and able to challenge conservatives at the local level? And, to the extent that conservative strength remains, who will inherit it?
The moderates' task--to "remake" the GOP--is a difficult and delicate one. If they really want to change the party, they will have to display something lacking both at the convention and since the election: unity. They will have to begin at the bottom of the party and win...
A second reason for at least guarded optimism about the Southern vote is that Republican congressmen were elected in the most powerful enclaves of segregation, Mississippi and Alabama. Local Democrats will now be forced to offer alternatives to these Goldwater men, and if such candidates need Negro votes, they will...
>George Murphy, 62, the old Holly wood song-and-dance man, left Pierre Salinger, 39, California's incumbent Democratic Senator of three months, a step behind. The early odds-and polls -had been with former Presidential Press Secretary Salinqer. Among Cali fornia's 8,000,000 registered voters...