"Lyndon Johnson's Victory in the 1948 Texas Senate Race: A Reappraisal" Dale Baum and James L. Hailey, in Political Science Quarterly (Fall 19941, Academy of Political Science, 475 Riverside Dr., Ste. 1274, New York, N.Y. 10115-1274.
"Landslide Lyndon" they called Lyndon Johnson, after he won a 1948 run-off Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate by only 87 votes out of 988,295. In explaining LBJ's razor-thin victory (tantamount to election since Texas was then a virtual one-party...