Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
62nd Year, No.34
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 1964
Johnson Wins in Landslide
Johnson Avery, President Triumph in Kansas
By William Theis
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Lyndon Baines Johnson was elected to a four-year presidential term in his own right last night with a victory of landslide proportions over Sen. Barry M. Goldwater.
For all practical purposes the election was over at 9:11 CST while the polls were still open on the West Coast, when Johnson's home state of Texas gave him 25 electoral votes that put him over the top.
At that point, the president had 272 electoral votes with 270 needed for election.
Johnson's triumph was so overwhelming that the conservative senator from Arizona, who had offered the voters "a choice, not an echo," did not even hold Vermont, which never had voted Democratic before in its history. Maine went LBJ, the first time it has voted for a Democratic president since it decided in favor of Woodrow Wilson in 1912.
In Kansas, voters "split the ticket" to give Lyndon Johnson Kansas' seven electoral votes, while giving the gubernatorial seat to Republican William H. Avery.
But as expected, Goldwater did break the traditional Democratic stranglehold on the South. He won Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina. Elsewhere, however, it was disaster for his hopes.
The President reached the required number of 270 electoral votes at 9:11 p.m. CST. His home state of Texas put him over the top.
With 83 per cent of the ballots counted, Johnson became the biggest vote getter in U.S. history at 2:29 a.m. EST when his total topped the 35,581,003 votes received in 1956 by Republican Dwight D Eisenhower.
THE POPULAR VOTE at 2 a.m. was:
—UPI Telephoto
Johnson: 35,694,214
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON . . . Scotes smashing victory
Johnson then had won 22 states with 272 electoral votes and was leading in 14 with 137 electoral votes. Goldwater had won 3 states with 25 electoral votes and was leading in 4 states with 30 electoral votes.
Goldwater: 22.149.413
The Democratic candidate at that point had 61.7 per cent of the popular vote to 38.3 per cent for his GOP rival.
JOHNSON JUMPED TO an early lead in Kansas, which counts its votes before the polls are closed throughout the state. Kansas last went Democratic in 1936, in Franklin D. Roosevelt's sweep over Alf Landon.
JOHNSON, IN THE PROCESS of winning big as he wanted, brought Democratic candidates in on his coattails in many places. The Democrats will control the 89th Congress, just as they did the 88th.
Just four years ago Kennedy defeated Richard M. Nixon in a cliff-hanger. From the start today, it was clear that there would not be a repetition.
Indiana, Republican since that same year, also went into Johnson's camp. Kentucky, which last voted Democratic in 1952, gave Johnson a landslide victory.
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Ellsworth Triumphs
Kansans Vote Split Ticket
By Greg Swartz (Assistant Managing Editor) Compiled from UPI Dispatches
Kansas voters yesterday gave their electoral votes to a Democratic presidential ticket for the first time since they cast aside their native son, Alf Landon, in 1936.
Split tickets were evident, however, as the entire Republican state ticket was swept into office. The closest race came at the top of the state ticket where Republican gubernatorial candidate William Avery held a steady lead over the Democratic candidate Harry Wiles.
Kansas Republicans' claim to the most-Republican-state-in-the-nation title may be further cut down if Chester Mize, 2nd district Republican Congressional candidate, loses to John Montgomery, the Democratic candidate.
The popular Democrat newspaper publisher, John Montgomery of Junction City, took the lead away from Mize of Atchison early in the evening.
Montgomery maintained a paper-thin margin of less than 1,000 votes over Mize with more than
half of the district's 618 precincts still unreported at 10:45 p.m.
THE OTHER FOUR Republican Congressional candidates have won re-election. All were incumbents.
Congressman Robert Ellsworth in the third district and Garner Shriver in the fourth district were declared the winners early in the race.
Incumbent Bob Dole in the first district and Joe Skubitz in the fifth held slim margins.
Johnson became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry Kansas since Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1936 landslide over Landon. Roosevelt also carried Kansas in 1932.
Johnson grabbed an early lead over Barry Goldwater in daytime returns and never relinquished it. By 11 p.m. he had stretched the lead to more than 60,000 votes—and only a major upset could have reversed the trend.
Johnson had 375,454 votes to Goldwater's 315,147.
Avery maintained a 20,000 to 30,000 vote over Wiles most of the night in the governor's race.
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Demos Sweep Congress With LBJ
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—Democrats rode President Johnson's coat-tails today into firm control of the 89th Congress.
On the basis of incomplete returns it was apparent the President would be dealing next year with a Senate and House somewhat more heavily Democratic than the 88th Congress.
At the same time Republicans picked up seats in the South, replacing at least five of Alabama's eight Democrats, gaining one seat in Mississippi, and also scoring a House gain in Georgia.
President Johnson's landslide victory swept scattered Republicans out of the House from one coast to the other.
On balance, the Democrats have picked up one and possibly two seats in the Senate, where they
Democrats had won 19 Republican seats and were leading for 26 more. Republicans had picked up seven Democratic seats and were leading for an additional three.
previously enjoyed a 66 to 34 party split. In the House, the final tally was hours away but the verdict was already clear:
EITHER THE Johnson sweep, or the Goldwater backlash, helped other Democrats. One who needed all the aid he could get was Sen. Stephen M. Young, D-Ohio, who lost to Republican Robert Taft Jr. In Oklahoma, Republican Wilkinson, the football coach, led Democrat Fred B. Harris for what initially looked like a solid Republican gain in the Senate. However, Harris pulled ahead and scored a second-half win.
IN CONNECTICUT, Sen. Thomas J. Dodd had it all over former Rep. John Davis Lodge, his Republican challenger. Dodd ran ahead from the start and was easily elected.
Democratic Sen. Vance Hartke of Indiana eased to an early win over his Republican challenger, D. Russell Bontrager.
ONE OF THE MOST DECISIVE gubernatorial victories was won by President Johnson's long-time friend, John Connally, in Texas. He took a long lead from the start, held a
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This Election Special Edition of the Daily Kansan went to press early this morning. Regular publication will resume with tomorrow afternoon's issue.
To nobody's surprise. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., youngest brother of the late president easily reclaimed his seat, trouncing Republican Howard Whitmore Jr.
SEN. HENRY M. JACKSON, D-Wash., beat Republican Lloyd J. Andrews, Sen. Ralph W. Yarborough, D-Tex., easily outpulled Republican George Bush, son of a former senator from Connecticut.
three-to-one advantage throughout the early voting and won easily.
In Maryland, Democrat Joseph Tydings rode into a substantial victory over incumbent Republican Sen. J. Glenn Beall. Tydings is the son of the late Sen. Millard Tydings.
House members who definitely had lost their seats included Alabama Democratic Rens. George Grant, George Huddleston Jr., and Kenneth Roberts, Republican Reps. Abner Sibul, Conn., M. G. Snyder, Ky., Frank Osmers, N.J., Paul Schenck, Ohio, Earl Wilson, Ind., and James Weaver, Pa.
In another major contest Sen, Pierre Salinger, D-Calif., former press secretary to President Kennedy and Johnson, trailed former actor-dancer George Murphy, the GOP nominee, from the outset in a close race and was still behind with almost half the precincts counted.
The indicated net gain of close to 40 Democratic seats in the House came as a shocker even to Democratic strategists, whose most optimistic prediction had called for a pickup of no more than half that number of seats.
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