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Title: 1968: The Three Faces of Arkansas Post by: RBH on September 17, 2006, 08:15:41 PM From Left to Right: Humphrey v. Nixon v. Wallace in Arkansas, Sen. Fulbright (D-Fayetteville) v. Charles Bernard (R-Earle), Gov. Win Rockefeller (R-Morrilton) v. Marion Crank (D-Foreman)
()()() The overall results: President: Wallace 39%, Nixon 31%, Humphrey 30% Senator: Fulbright 59%, Bernard 41% Governor: Rockefeller 52%, Crank 48% Quite a bit of ticket splitting. (I got the County results from a table in one of the CQ databases) Title: Re: 1968: The Three Faces of Arkansas Post by: memphis on September 22, 2006, 02:25:43 PM Not too surprsing. Arkansas voters are still very independent. Blacks are, of course, loyal Dems and the hill people/Wal-Mart people in the NW are loyal Republicans, cancelling each other out. The rest of the state is fairly populist and has no trouble supporting both Bill Clinton and George W Bush.
Title: Re: 1968: The Three Faces of Arkansas Post by: minionofmidas on September 22, 2006, 02:39:08 PM Not too surprsing. Arkansas voters are still very independent. Blacks are, of course, loyal Dems and the hill people/Wal-Mart people in the NW are loyal Republicans, cancelling each other out. The rest of the state is fairly populist and has no trouble supporting both Bill Clinton and George W Bush. Title: Re: 1968: The Three Faces of Arkansas Post by: memphis on September 22, 2006, 02:59:30 PM Not too surprsing. Arkansas voters are still very independent. Blacks are, of course, loyal Dems and the hill people/Wal-Mart people in the NW are loyal Republicans, cancelling each other out. The rest of the state is fairly populist and has no trouble supporting both Bill Clinton and George W Bush. I was talking more about today. Rockefeller, as his name implies, was a very liberal old-fashioined Republican. He pulled together a curious combination though. Thanks for pointing that out. Title: Re: 1968: The Three Faces of Arkansas Post by: minionofmidas on September 22, 2006, 03:04:16 PM What's up with Crawford (that third county from the North on the Western border)? One of 8 counties Bernard carries, but votes for neither Nixon nor Rockefeller?
Title: Re: 1968: The Three Faces of Arkansas Post by: memphis on September 22, 2006, 03:14:19 PM What's up with Crawford (that third county from the North on the Western border)? One of 8 counties Bernard carries, but votes for neither Nixon nor Rockefeller? I can't find any info on Bernard, but presume based on geography that he won those 8 counties on regional party loyalty. Nixon and Rockefeller would have been too liberal. This is very conservative territory. Title: Re: 1968: The Three Faces of Arkansas Post by: jokerman on September 22, 2006, 10:45:12 PM What's up with Crawford (that third county from the North on the Western border)? One of 8 counties Bernard carries, but votes for neither Nixon nor Rockefeller? I can't find any info on Bernard, but presume based on geography that he won those 8 counties on regional party loyalty. Nixon and Rockefeller would have been too liberal. This is very conservative territory. |