Gubernatorial campaign This sentence makes no sense at all Agnew ran for the position of Governor of Maryland in 1966 In this overwhelmingly Democratic state he was elected after the Democratic nominee George P Mahoney a Baltimore paving contractor and perennial candidate running on an anti integration platform narrowly won the Democratic gubernatorial primary out of a crowded slate of eight candidates trumping early favorite Carlton R Sickles So he won after someone else narrowly won Or was he elected AFTER Mahoney s term was up It makes no sense at all