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LBJ Landslide Swamps Barry
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Goldwater's doom was sealed when the returns came in from Ohio and the margin was for Johnson. The Arizona senator had said he must win Ohio to be successful in his bid for the presidency.
BUT NOT ALL the election news was bright for Democrats. Republican Jack Edward became the first member of his party elected to Congress from Alabama since 1872. He defeated Democrat John W. Tyson, a state senator in the 1st District.
Democrats nailed down control of the Senate with the election of Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, D-Maine. With their 40 holdover senators this gave them the additional 10 seats required to organize a Democratic Senate.
At 8:05 p.m. Lawrence time the Columbia Broadcasting System said that on the basis of its vote profile analysis the President was elected to a four-year term.
Electoral Votes
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The following tabulation was taken from United Press International wire dispatches.
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Wednesday, Nov. 4, 1964
Missouri 12
Montana 4
Nebraska 5
Nevada 3
New Hampshire 4
New Jersey 17
New Mexico 4
New York 43
North Carolina 13
North Dakota 4
Ohio 26
Oklahoma 8
Oregon 6
Pennsylvania 29
Rhode Island 4
South Carolina
South Dakota 4
Tennessee 11
Texas 25
Utah 4
Vermont 3
Virginia 12
Washington 9
West Virginia 7
Wisconsin 12
Wyoming 3
District of Columbia 3
BARRY GOLDWATER
Suffers first defeat . . .
LBJ Avoids Victory Talk
AUSTIN, Tex.—(UPI)—President Johnson said tonight the election was "running about as expected" but withheld immediate comment on his apparent landslide victory over Sen. Barry M. Goldwater.
The President, with a broad smile, gave only the briefest answers on the run to newsmen jammed around him and television people thrusting microphones in front of his face as he made his way from a limousine to his suite in the Driskill hotel in Austin to await late returns.
HE SAID HE WOULD be joined at his LBJ ranch tomorrow by vice presidential running mate Hubert H. Humphrey at a noon (CST) barbecue which he said would also be attended by "you people who have been working so hard."
He was speaking to reporters. When Johnson stepped from a helicopter at 8:40 p.m. CST (9:40 p.m. EST), after a 25-minute flight from Johnson City, he wore a solemn expression.
He was speaking to reporters.
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Sen. Barry M. Goldwater's defeat in the presidential election controfs the Republican party with this immediate question: Who picks up the pieces?
Who Gets Pieces After GOP Defeat?
Some GOP leaders were convinced even before the votes were cast that Goldwater was headed for defeat and were talking about what should be done to repair the party for future contests.
Republicans everywhere will now line up for a power struggle between Goldwater's conservative followers and the liberal and middle-of-the-road Republicans who failed to deny him the presidential nomination.
THE CONFLICT WILL go on inside state organizations as well as the national party apparatus. In the weeks immediately ahead, there probably will be more mulling about than conclusive action. The smart professionals will be waiting for the dust to settle, for bitterness to subside for less talk about who is to blame for the debacle.
THERE PROBABLY will be demands for the resignation or ouster of Dean Burch, Goldwater's handpicked party chairman. However, there has been less grumbling about Burch than about John Grenier, executive director of the national committee and operating boss at party headquarters.
Space Shot Near
CAPE KENNEDY — (UPI)— The United States prepared to send a Mariner television probe today on a historic 350-million mile flight to Mars.
House Speaker John W. McCormack, D-Mass., today was re-elected to his 19th term in the House, smothering two opponents.
McCormack, 72, polled four times the combined vote of his two challengers, Republican Jack Molesworth and Independent Noel A. Day, a Negro social worker.
House Speaker Nabs Victory
(By United Press International)
The Republican leadership in Congress is one center of power which can influence the course of the party. If Goldwater lieutenants al headquarters, another power remain in command of the nationbase may develop around GOP governors and other party leaders who want to turn away from Goldwater.
McCormack, House speaker since the late Sam Rayburn died in 1962, has been first in the line of succession to the Presidency since last Nov. 22, when President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas and Lyndon B. Johnson became President.