The Impact of the Negro Vote on Alabama Elections Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Page: 91
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the 1966 election. George Wallace, naturally, dominated the
campaign, taking Lurleen along as sort of a figurehead. She
smiled and spoke briefly to the crowds while her husband
waited impatiently; then he took over handling the crowd in
his own inimitable way—firing them up, cooling them down,
making them laugh or cry—in short, capturing their emotions
and their'votes. A favorite device of his was picked up from
Orval Paubus of Arkansas and is still used by Wallaces he
first rouses the crowd against reporters, then protects the
reporters from the irate crowd. Later, he claims such events
as evidence of his protection of the press.^ Even those who
do not adhere to his policies begrudgingly admire his skill
and finesse in crowd control.
Lurleen Wallace won the governorship in 1966 by a land-
slide vote, with George as her number-one adviser. When Mrs.
Wallace died in May of 1968, Albert Brewer took over as gover-
nor. By then, George Wallace had a new interests the 1968
presidential election. When Wallace ran for President in 1968
on the American Independent Party ticket, his platform included
opposition to federal interference in schools, stress on law
and order, opposition to open-housing laws, a hawkish stand
on Vietnam, including stress on the "treason" of those who
collect blood for the Vietcong, and opposition to the federal
2lRobert G. Sherrill, "Running for God," Nation. CGIV
(May 8, 1967), 593.
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Smith, Dale Cheryl. The Impact of the Negro Vote on Alabama Elections Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, thesis, May 1972; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc131520/m1/98/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .