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It was nearly midnight before it was confirmed a Byrd again be the Democratic candidate for senator.
But that slice of the electorate that before was of little concern, that would later change Virginia’s political power structure, was recruited heavily by the Republicans.
“The Republican Party was quick to realize in the late ’60s that its chances of winning depended on getting more people to register and vote,” said state Sen. Wiley Mitchell, himself a Republican.
Republicans discovered modern politicking. They used direct-mail pleas for money, a telephone campaign to encourage voter participation, and maintained computerized voter rolls and collected data by computer, methods that today have become essential to political survival.
Six years later that the shift in political power would show results in the Senate. In 1972, the year Richard Nixon swept the race for president, William L. Scott defeated Democratic incumbent William B. Spong Jr. to become the first Virginia Republican in the U.S. Senate since the end of Reconstruction.
In 1969, Linwood Holton, the spokesman for the
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