Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beliefs will affect his chances of winning." He thinks Stevenson will win today because the independent voter is "disenchanted" with Eisenhower. "There are more Democrats than Republicans, but elections are swung by the sizeable block of independent voters, whose major characteristic is an ability to scratch a ballot intelligently...
...solid base of labor and Italian support, DiSalle is aiming his campaign at independents and liberal Republicans. Through the medium of 17-hour television "talkathons," he points out he is nearer to both Eisenhower and Stevenson's foreign policy views than his opponent, and asks for "Ike and Mike" ballot splitting. Domestically, DiSalle drums on Bricker's voting record against rent control, which recent rent hikes in the state have made a sensitive issue...
...serviceman, and proud to be one. It will give me even greater pride, however, that, as a serviceman, I will vote for Dwight D. Eisenhower for President of the U.S. In fact, I have already done so ... by military ballot, which was sent off in the mails...
...Democratic nominee. His reluctance was based on three points: his disinclination to run against Eisenhower, his horror of a Truman endorsement and his desire to continue his promising career as governor of Illinois. At that time, Ike was thought to be invincible, Truman was regarded as ballot-box poison and Stevenson was sure of re-election as governor...
...lost it when the normal Republican downstate majority failed to materialize. Truman's statewide plurality was only 33,612 out of 3,984,046 votes cast for President. An important oddity of the 1948 Illinois election is that Henry Wallace's name was not on the ballot and he received only about 5,000 write-in votes. In some other important states (New York, California), Republicans comparing this year's prospects with 1948 have to presume that the large 1948 Wallace vote (509,559 in New York, 190,381 in California) will go to Stevenson this year...