Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reading the national Scoreboard, Stassen was even cockier. When he first arrived in Montpelier last week, he was "reasonably sure" of 200 first-ballot delegates. By the time he left Portland, five days later, he thought he could count on 230 (against Dewey's estimated 350 and Taft's 200 to 250), including 17 of New England's 30 votes. Said Stassen confidently: "I would not change places with any other candidate at the moment." Who did he think was the man to beat? Replied Stassen with a grin: "Mr. Truman...
...Complete opposition to the League in any form) means that the United States withdraws from the Society of Nations and throws away all chance of paying dividends on the capital in men and ideals she invested in the war . . . A tremendous majority (in the College straw ballot) for a compromise between the Senator Lodge and Democratic reservations in order to facilitate the ratification alone can show that college men have appreciated the issue. It must not fail." (January...
...Harvard wants recovery fully as much as its distinguished graduate; its vote yesterday (a straw ballot) damning Roosevelt policies) does not signify that it wants to return to the old deal of the twenties. It does mean that undergraduates do not want the type of recovery which can only lead to chaos through uncontrolled expenditure and through the substitution of opportunism for a definite program." (October...
Quite obviously, not all of these straw voters were Communists. Wallace could apparently count on a sizable bloc of voters who believed in a protest vote-and to hell with the consequences. The real test would be their willingness to translate their polled opinion on to the ballot next November...
Class of '48 election techniques ran the gauntlet with middling results at the meeting as Dudley House voting was censured because one aspirant officer saw fit to campaign unduly close to the ballot...