Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...written: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eisonhauer, Eausonhower, Isenhower, Eneshower, Izenour, Ikenhoner, Ike. As the returns came in, politicians across the U.S. listened in amazement. This week the unofficial count gave Ike 106,946 write-in votes to 128,605 for Favorite Son Stassen, whose name was printed on the ballot* and listed on the voting machines. While Stassen got more votes than any other candidate, the total write-in vote was greater than his. This blow in his home state, after he ran a poor third in New Hampshire, made it clear that Harold Stassen is doggedly running nowhere...
...additional compliment that some refused to be dismayed by the long Eisenhower name and simply wrote in Ike." Then he sent a cable to Friend Mintener: "To you, personally, and to the more than 100,000 Minnesotans who paid me the great compliment of writing my name on the ballot, I send a very humble 'thank...
...There were other considerable write-in votes, but all were dwarfed by Ike's total. Bob Taft had 24,019. On the Democratic side, Favorite Son Hubert Humphrey, a Truman stand-in whose name was printed on the ballot, polled 99,199 votes, while Estes Kefauver's name was written in 19,868 times and Harry Truman...
...vigorous press campaign against Tammany Hall. But Tammanyite John P. O'Brien was elected with 1,056,115 votes. In 1944, Tom Dewey received 146,706 write-ins in the Pennsylvania presidential primary, after a long, well-organized campaign in a primary with no names printed on the ballot...
Although the withdrawal deadline had passed, New Jersey officials this week prepared to grant Taft's request and take his name off the ballot. The retreat from Jersey left no state, except possibly South Dakota, in which Taft will have to face another direct test of popularity with...