Edited sentence: A subsequent series of articles on the front page of the Nashville Tennessean and a lawsuit followed.Fulton was handily reelected in 1964, but in the next four cycles came closer than any Democrat before or since to losing a district that has been in Democratic hands since 1875.However, the election was contested by Fulton and a minor candidate, union activist Raymond Love.In 1962 he entered the Democratic primary for the Nashville-based 5th Congressional District against incumbent Congressman Joseph Carlton Loser.In the August voting, Loser was the apparent victor.In the closely-monitored rematch, Fulton defeated Loser rather handily, and breezed to victory in November.Love did not participate in this race, stating that his only desire had been one for an open, honest election and that the fraud alleged, while sufficient to have perhaps thwarted the election of Fulton, had not been of an extent sufficient to have prevented his election in any event.The allegations of fraud were serious enough that a judge ordered a new primary election.While his opponents were unwilling to state it publicly, much of the opposition to Fulton among some voters was his unabashed support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which most white Southern Democrats actively opposed