Word: anti-catholicism
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How Much Religion? In Election Year 1960, the great imponderable was the issue of religion. For months to come, the pundits and statisticians will still be analyzing the effects of that issue. But in its general outlines, the answer was clear. Democrat Kennedy's Catholicism was certainly a factor...
Herbert Claiborne Pell '06, former Congressman from New York and prominent Democratic campaign organizer, said last night that Smith, unlike Kennedy in 1960, never defended his church-state stand. The smaller amount of subversive anti-Catholic action this fall, he added, indicates that religion has become a more sophisticated issue...
Solid for Kennedy: Barring a huge anti-Catholic vote, Kennedy will win the deepest sections of the Deep South that held loyally to Al Smith in 1928 and Adlai Stevenson in 1956 (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi). Electoral votes: KENNEDY 39.
New Jersey (16): The religion issue discourages Republicans in a 43% Catholic state. Ike won by 2 to 1 in 1956, but G.O.P. polls show that some districts that swung to Ike will go 65% to 80% for Kennedy. Fanning the religion issue, Democratic stumpers display anti-Catholic tracts while...
North Carolina (14): The Democrats, boasting their biggest and best organization in any presidential campaign, are working hard to counter anti-Catholic feeling and to offset Republicans in the booming Piedmont cities and in the western mountain counties. The Democrats have sent in Harry Truman to talk common sense to...