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National primaries yield wide party wins and upsets across states
Carey and Grasso won clear Democratic nominations in New York and Connecticut. Maryland voted Hughes over Lee while Minnesota’s Fraser edged Short for the DFL endorsement. Nebraska, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Wisconsin and other states held primaries shaping the November map.
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Associated Press
Hugh Carey
New York
Ella Grasso
Connecticut
Harry Hughes
Maryland
Blair Lee
Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
Minnesota
Muriel Humphrey
Hubert Humphrey
U.S. Senate
Carey
Mary Anne Krupsak
Upstate
Jeremiah Bloom
Assembly
Perry Duryea
Grasso
Robert Killian
Ronald Sarasin
Marion Berry
Washington, D.C
Walter Washington
Sterling Tucker
Art Fletcher
Hughes
Mandel
Lee
U.S
J. Glenn Beall
Fred Richmond
Richmond
Bernard Gifford
Rhode Island
Providence
Vincent Cianci
Robert A
Skip
Milwaukee
Claiborne Pell
David Durenberger
Fraser
Rudy Perpich
Albert Quie
Wendell Anderson
Rudy Boschwitz
Wisconsin
Lee S. Dreyfus
University of Wisconsin At
Stevens Points
Robert Kasten
Dreyfus
Martin Schreiber
Patrick Lucey
Mexico
Schreiber
New Hampshire
Meldrim Thomson
Wesley Powell
Hugh Gallen
Thomas McIntyre
Gordon Humphrey
Florida
Edward J. Gurney
Washington
Robert Shevin
Robert Graham
Government Services
Jack Eckerd
Vermont
Richard Snelling
Edwin Granai
Arizona
Bruce Babbitt
Evan Mecham