Arkansas: Within Reach

Though the Democrats have controlled the Arkansas statehouse for 92 straight years, the odds today are no better than 50-50 that they can round out a full century in office. The first serious threat to one-party rule came in 1964, when Republican Winthrop Rockefeller polled 43% of the vote against Governor Orval Faubus. G.O.P. hopes soared higher still last spring, when after nearly twelve years in office the still-formidable Governor decided to step down at year's end to rest and—some suspect—to mount a campaign against Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright in 1968....

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