A correction, from hazy previous postings. \u00c2\u00a0Floyd Paxton never ran for Senate, or governor.<\/p>\n
So here it is is, his electoral history<\/a>, for the man who invented the bread clip — those weird little things that snap bags together.<\/p>\n 11\/08\/1966\u00c2\u00a09,585 (7.64%)<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 (running as a “conservative” in the general election.) If there’s any more than this, I would be interested to know.<\/p>\n Interestingly enough, dipping into the New York Times archives and he (a regional president of the John Birch Society) had offered his employees a day off should Goldwater win the Presidency. \u00c2\u00a0It was not to be.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A correction, from hazy previous postings. \u00c2\u00a0Floyd Paxton never ran for Senate, or governor. So here it is is, his electoral history, for the man who invented the bread clip — those weird little things that snap bags together. 11\/08\/1966\u00c2\u00a09,585 (7.64%)\u00c2\u00a0 (running as a “conservative” in the general election.) 9\/15\/1970\u00c2\u00a010,245 (13.15%) (Republican in a “blanket […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doc-hastings-and-the-4th-congressional-district-of-washington-state","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12140,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12107\/revisions\/12140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n9\/15\/1970\u00c2\u00a010,245 (13.15%)<\/a> (Republican in a “blanket primary)
\n9\/19\/1972\u00c2\u00a028,851 (25.69%)<\/a> (Republican in a “blanket primary)
\n9\/17\/1974 \u00c2\u00a017,872 (25.61%)\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>(Republican in a “blanket primary) … He did beat this guy<\/a>, to take the Republican nomination.
\n11\/4\/1974 \u00c2\u00a059,249 (41.09%) <\/a>… a general election defeat.<\/p>\n