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Alabama Gubernatorial Campaigns Shrill Despite Wallace Exit
Alabama voters face a tight race among Baxley Graddick and James as campaigns intensify with mudslinging and high stakes. Baxley, backed by labor and Black voters, battles a scandal over a state trooper driving a reporter to his Montgomery apartment. Graddick seeks to peel away Wallace’s biracial coalition while James hopes to rebound from past terms as governor.
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Los Angeles Times
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Statehouse Dome
James
George C. Wallace
Ted Bryant
Birmingham Post-Herald
Wallace
South
Margaret Latimer
Auburn University
Bill Baxley
Organized Labor
Charles Graddick
Baxley
Associated Press
Las Vegas
Bayley
Graddick
Mobile
Fob James