 However, Allen's campaign proposal to abolish parole may have resonated during a surge of crime in the state.More importantly, he was running at the start of what would become the 1994 Republican Revolution.Allen overcame the deficit and won with 58.3% of the vote, the largest margin (+17.4 points) since Albertis S. Harrison Jr. defeated H. Clyde Pearson with a margin of +27.7 points in 1961.