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Polarized Vote. As expected, the vote polarized east and west, with Denenberg carrying Philadelphia (where only 172,000 of 619,000 Democrats bothered to vote), while Flaherty's strength was in Pittsburgh and surrounding Allegheny County (where a home-rule referendum brought out more voters). The race was close, but in the end Flaherty slid by. With just over a million of the state's 2.8 million registered Democrats casting ballots, he won by some 20,000 votes. He must now try to unseat Senator Richard S. Schweiker, who was unopposed in last week's Republican primary in his bid for a second term. Schweiker's views have earned him a place on the White House "enemies" list, and earlier this month he called for the President's resignation, both factors that may make him less vulnerable than other Republican incumbents in this year of Watergate.
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