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Wednesday, November 8, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Democrats blame ads, spending for losses
TOPEKA-Kansas Democrats are looking ahead after looking behind.
Terry Scanlon, state Democratic Party chairman, said last night at the Topeka Holiday Inn the results of yesterday's election were due to a matter of momentum — on the Republican side.
The momentum, he said, came for the GOP in the 10 days of election from a media barrage and笼络 upetting.
Although he said the Democrats thought the election was going their way—shortly before midnight—the thought the campaign had lasted much too long and cost too much money.
"THINK," he said, "we've got to have some serious discussions about that and some reform in camp." He added, "It's a challenge."
postpaid.
"This will start soon for the Democrats in the conference in Memphis."
The Democratic losses, including those of Bill Roy and Martha Keys, were a surprise to Scanlon, but inevitable, he said, especially in the wake of the GOP's last-minute media blitz.
Roy's defeat came about partly because of the nature of issue. Roy raised and caused Roy had been "hitting
Scanion was not pleased with the amount of money used to swat voters' minds.
"Spending millions of dollars on two candidates is ridiculous," he said.
But Scanlon was not ready to concede widespread Democratic defeats across the state, especially in the northwest, where he had fought.
IN THE U.S. Senate race, Scanlon said, he thinks
"With Carlin," he said, "you're going to see across the state appointments to state boards and committees."
Republicans to control state spending limit
TOPEKA—Republican leaders were upset last night after the announcement that Democrat John Cardin had won the governor's seat, and were confident other Republican election gains would control Carin's
Carlin defended incumbent Republican Robert F Bennett in a closely contested race.
George Van Riper, executive director for the Republican Party, said that 68 to 70 state House of Representatives seats and 21 of 40 State Senate seats would be held by Republicans.
He said the combination of the two could limit Carlin's spending, even though Carlin campaigned on it. "We're going to have to do something," he said.
in the park to sit in a bench with the
"The House has control of the pocketbook so it can
hold Carlin's spending down if necessary. "Van Riper said that he was in the House and Senate, the situation will be good."
However, most of the Republican supporters, who were crowded into Republic headquarters at the Ramada Inn in Topeka, appeared somber when the announcement of Carlin's win received at 12:35
Jake Ranson, state Republican Party chairman, said the trend that defeated Democratic senatorial candidate Bill Roy might have been the same that defeated Bennett.
defeated befriends.
He said Nancy Landon Kassebaum had been elected because she was a "fresh face", and Bennett might have been defeated because he was a familiar face.
"I think it's a terrible shame to lose a good governor for the wrong reason," Ransom said. "We had John McCain and I, but neither was elected to Reagan. The Democrats tried to preempt us on the issues, but I think we were right in the issues before."
Ranson said Carlin might not have the same respect former Democratic Gov. Robert Docking had when he failed a Republican-dominated House and Senate from 1966 to 1974.
He said the issue of state utility bills, stressed by Carlin, might have been the main reason Bennett was defeated, but he predicted the issue would "come back to haunt Carlin."
Carlin had accused Bennett of not being tough
enough with the Kannas Corporation Commission
utility cost increase. In his campaign, he said Bennett
Ranson said Carlin would face opposition from the House and Senate if he tried to regulate KCC increases.
He said Republican domination established by yesterday's election would cause trouble for Carlin it.
Van Ripar said Carlin would meet some members of a new breed of Republicans who had won their elections by "knocking on doors, talking to people and learning the issues."
“There is a trend back toward Republicans admitting and being proud of being Republicans.” Van Buren wrote.
Topeka paper muffs prediction
The Topeka Capital-Journal goofed last night.
Acting on early vote totals in the race for Kansas governor, the newspaper printed news that incumbent Gov. Robert F. Benjamin from Democratic opponent John Carlin.
But, as the Chicago Tribune did with its famous "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline in 1948, the Capital-Journal jumped the gun a little hit.
With 99 percent of the votes in and counted at 7:45 a.m., John Carlin entered the victor's seat. But he was not alone.
According to a Capital Journal production manager, about 1,200 first-edition copies with a red "Kassebium," Bennett Win for the paper were printed and ready to be distributed.
However, the mistake was caught early enough to prevent about 400 copies from reaching the streets, the production manager said early this morning.
Strangely, some of the 800 inaccurate copies that did make it out ended up on Topeka streets, although they were suppressed by law. Hyderabad and other surrounding areas, he said.
The production manager said he did not know how the copies appeared in Topeka.
He said the type for the first edition was set at about 10:30 p.m. and copied printed. The type was hastily changed about midnight, but before that he had passed Bennett in the governor's race.
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