Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from beans to harpoons. He can perfect his plans for blowing up the civil-rights issue. But all this may well be too little and too late, for Harriman is still confronted by the cold mathematics of the delegate count as the convention draws close. That count, including first-ballot votes pledged and indicated (see box), shows...
Confronted by Stevenson's big lead, Averell Harriman and his forces know that, to win, they must shake the party awake and set it to hollering. Adlai Stevenson and his supporters think they can keep it still and quiet until the decisive ballot. The care and feeding of the Baby, between now and the first roll call, may well be the decisive factor in Chicago...
...week's end Stevenson's coaches-making the most of every maybe−expansively predicted between 528 and 600 first-ballot votes for their man (with 686½ needed to win) while Harriman's most optimistic teammates could conjure up no more than...
...more toward Stevenson. But the big prize was by no means in his hands. The end of the primaries signaled the start of a whole new battle in the struggle for the Democratic nomination, a struggle of political maneuver that would go on right down to the final ballot in Chicago. Already the kingmakers (see box) were at work. In this new phase of the fight, Adlai Stevenson faced one main adversary: New York's Governor Averell Harriman...
...Senator Stuart Symington, who might have come forward as the leading "moderate" candidate if Stevenson had faltered. As the delegate-counting season opened, Stevenson clearly had a long lead in delegates pledged, announced or presumed to be for him. The best estimates at week's end of first-ballot strength...