re: #357 KGxvi

Pat Brown’s popularity was waning by 1966. He only got 52% in the Democratic primary that year. There were the Watts Riots and the early Vietnam protests at Berkeley. He had also promised not to seek a third term and then went back on that. Plus, at the time California still leaned Republican statewide at the time.

Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty almost defeated Pat Brown in the 1966 Democratic primary.