But Tedisco said that because the tally so far doesn't
include military voters, who tend to lean Republican, the remaining ballots will push him over the edge.
Rockefeller's subsequent divorce of his wife and 1963 marriage to the much - younger Margaretta «Happy» Murphy, a mother of four who had recently divorced her husband, cemented in the minds of many family - minded Americans an unpleasant nexus between loose morals and weak support for the
military; it marked the forging of a large wedge of
voters that now consciously identified itself as conservative and would grow to
include Democrats as well as Republicans.