Republicans gain governor seats in Alabama Florida and more
Republicans won Alabama for the first time since Reconstruction and captured Florida and Texas governors. Bob Martinez in Florida became the first Hispanic governor, Kay Orr won Nebraska, while GOP leads emerged in Texas New Mexico Oklahoma and South Carolina. Democrats gained Tennessee and Pennsylvania. incumbents Cuomo Blanchard Dukakis Harris ONeill and Sununu won re election.
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Alabama
Sun Belt
Florida
Texas
Tampa
Bob Martinez
Kay Orr
Reagan
Nebraska
GOP
Tennessee
Pennsylvania
South
Frank Fahrenkopf
Cuomo
James Blanchard
Michigan
Michael Dukakis
Massachusetts
Richard Celeste
Ohio
Joe Frank Harris
Georgia
Bill Clinton
Arkansas
William O’neill
Connecticut
Edward di Prete
Rhode Island
John Sununu
New Hampshire
Maine
New Mexico
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Guy Hunt
Bill Baxley
Martinez
Steve Pajcic
Coe College Students Help NBC Gather Iowa Poll Data
Three Coe College students worked as NBC poll observers at Harding Junior High Hoover Elementary and Hiawatha Center collecting 30 surveys each on voters gubernatorial and senatorial preferences. They relayed results to NBC in New York and watched coverage with pride.
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Coe College
NBC
Iowa
Bob Davison
Meg Hughes
Peggy Sikkila
Harding Junior High School
Hoover Elementary School
Hiawatha Community Center
New York
Tom Brokaw
Tom Sweeney
Coe
Sweeney
ABC
CBS
News Election Service
Davison
Donald and
Melba Davison
Parkland Dr. SE
Hughes
Tom Hughes
Buckingham Dr. NW
Harding
Hoover and Sikkila
Brownton
Senate outcomes reshape party balance after 1986 election
The piece notes Republicans gaining seats in Missouri and Idaho while Oregon and California show mixed results. It highlights veteran GOP strength with Quayle and Rudman among winners, and confirms Democrats defending 12 seats to Republicans 22. Mikulski makes history as first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right.
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Reagan
California
Alan Cranston
Edwin Zschau
House
Senate
Warren Rudman
New Hampshire
Dan Quayle
Indiana
Arlen Specter
Pennsylvania
Charles Grassley
Iowa
Alfonso D’amato
New York
Don Nickles
Oklahoma
Jake Garn
Utah
Ernest Hollings
South Carolina
John Glenn
Ohio
Christopher Dodd
Connecticut
Alan Dixon
Illinois
Patrick Leahy
Vermont
Dale Bumpers
Arkansas
Wendell Ford
Kentucky
Mikulski
United States
Chavez
Thomas O’neill
D-Mass
Democrats Claim Early Lead in House Races Across South
Democrats pressed to widen their 253 seat majority as early results favored open Republican seats in South Carolina and Virginia plus potential picks in North Carolina. Republicans won two Democratic open seats in Pennsylvania and Louisiana while Maryland margins remained tight.
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Washington
House of Representatives
South
South Carolina
Virginia
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Louisiana
Maryland
Maine
Joseph Brennan
H. Rollin Ives
David Price
Duke University
Owen Pickett
Joe Canada
Atlanta
Ben Jones
Cooter
Dukes of Hazzard
Faye Williams
House
Washington, D.C
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Stewart Barnum Jr
Curt Weldon
Bill Spingler
Philadelphia
Merly
Joseph Kennedy II
Robert Kennedy
Boston
Mass
Thomas O’neill
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Helen Delich Bentley
Jim Wright
Texas
Indiana
John Hiler
R-Ind
Thomas Ward
South Bend
James Jontz
James Butcher
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Wisconsin
Anthony Earl
Tommy Thompson
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James Thompson
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Lyndon LaRouche
Gazette
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Tee Salaun
Joan Lipsky
Wendell Harms
Lipsky
Charlies On the River
Salam
Harms
Missouri
Christopher Bond
Harriett Woods
Thomas Eagleton
West
Idaho
Oregon
Bob Packwood
Southern Demos
Frank McCloskey
Richard McIntyre
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Tony Coelho
D-Calif
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Lindale
Westdale Seiferts Charge
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