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Kansas went to the polls under generally cloudy skies. Some showers fell early in eastern and north central Kansas, and mid-day rains fell in some sectors. Temperatures were generally mild.
In addition to the slates of candidates, Kansans voted on two constitutional amendments. One would exempt all household goods from personal property taxation, and the other would remove the century-old-two-term limitation on county sheriffs.
BALLOTING WAS SLOW in Wichita yesterday, and voter lines grew long as voting machines in some precincts broke down. The malfunctioning occurred in the normally heavy, early morning voter rush.
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Election commissioner Gladys Cox said there were at least 100 calls about these machines.
In Hutchinson, the voter turnout was so heavy that many polling places requested more voting booths.
'Backlash' Didn't Lash Back
By Raymond Lahr
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President Johnson polled most of the big-city Democratic vote and benefitted from Republican defections tonight that more than offset any white "backlash" to pile up his smashing victory over Sen. Barry M. Goldwater. The "white backlash"—if any— wasn't apparent.
The chief executive won by landslide margins in the traditional battleground states of the North and coated to easy triumphs in such GOP strongholds as Iowa, Vermont, Kansas and New Hampshire. Vermont never had voted Democratic since the Republican party was founded in 1856.
JOHNSON'S BACKING for the 1964 civil rights law—and Goldwater's vote against it—seemed to have been major factors in the President's loss of the deep-south states such as Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina.
Offsetting this, an analysis of precinct returns indicated that Johnson got an overwhelming percentage of Negroes' votes in northern cities—90 per cent and higher in some cases.
Goldwater's forecasts of a great "silent vote," which he said was not reflected in the opinion polls, did not "materialize. What did appear were clear indications of a not-so-hidden Republican vote for Johnson.
The normally GOP suburbs ringing Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit and other northern big cities joined the parade to Johnson's banner.
VOTERS APPARENTLY preferred Johnson's "let us continue" theme in a period of general peace and high prosperity over Goldwater's "stop socialism at home and communism abroad."
Some working-class districts in some northern Democratic strongholds had shown signs of resentment against Negro pressures for civil rights gains. But they apparently did not desert Johnson either.
Precincts in Milwaukee, Wis., which gave sizeable percentages to segregationist Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace in last spring's Wisconsin primary went Democratic by margins of up to 80 to 90 per cent.
On the other hand, reports from Baltimore indicated that among unionized steelworkers Goldwater ran about 9 per cent ahead of the vote racked up by former Vice-President Richard M. Nixon in 1960. There also were indications of a "backlash" in northern Indiana industrial areas.
This bolstered Johnson's contention that the "frontlash"—his term for Republicans bolting the Goldwater ticket—would be more potent at the polls than the white resentment against Negro integration tactics.
THERE WAS STRONG support from middle and high-income groups for the Johnson-Humphrey ticket in such states as New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
Goldwater's sharp rebuff of GOP "moderates" at the Republican convention in San Francisco bore bitter fruit. It cost him votes in states where Republican candidates backed away from the party's standard-bearer.
GOLDWATER'S "SOUTHERN strategy" worked only in parts of the South. Johnson took two southern states with the biggest electoral totals—his native Texas, and Florida.
Goldwater forces had hoped to take Ohio, Illinois, Texas and California, sweep Dixie and win a few other smaller states to roll up the 270 electoral votes needed for victory.
It simply didn't work.
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