The Steady Hands and a Stubborn Campaign Manager behind Mississippi’s Most Unlikely Victory
At 10 p.m., four hours after the last polls shuttered and the counting slowed, United Press International and The Associated Press put the final dot on the headline: William A. Allain had won despite trailing in the polls. Under the glare of cameras and the careful cadence of rhetoric, the Attorney General walked to the microphone and thanked a state that had, in a tight, strange season, placed its trust in him.
He spoke, charmed and cautious, of a boyhood in Washington, Mississippi, of the humbling of ambition and the strange comfort of victory. The wire services dutifully fed that speech into presses across the country, and the pictures ran in every paper that night.
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