Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some Eisenhower enthusiasts believe that he can carry South Carolina's eight electoral votes, although no Republican since Reconstruction has come close to winning. Eisenhower and Nixon will be on the South Carolina ballot apart from the regular Democratic and Republican columns, so that a South Carolinian will be able to vote for them without voting Republican. The Democrats are confident that they can hold South Carolina. They think that Ike may get as many as 75,000 votes, but believe the state total will exceed 200,000. All concede that South Carolina is less safe for Stevenson than...
...Dewey, who rarely misses a point in this kind of argument, forgot one: in Sparkman's Alabama, the Democratic rooster at the top of the ballot bears the printed legend: White Supremacy...
...previous Diet, the Communists had held 22 seats in the Lower Chamber. In last week's election, they failed to win a single seat. The total vote cast for the Reds dropped from 3,000,000 (1949) to less than 900,000. It was the biggest ballot-box defeat suffered by any Communist Party since World...
Come off it, TIME ! . . . Your persistence in printing in full Ike's pedestrian and platitudinous prose and in depicting Governor Stevenson as a facetious, popeyed monster, if continued until Election Day, may well drive me into casting a Democratic ballot...
...turnout can cause susrprising and pleasing results; the national election in Japan Wednesday is a good example. Dopesters, figuring on a lower percentage of voters, decided the Communists would lose some seats in the Diet but would still be a factor. Every Communist voter was certain to cast a ballot, while some Liberals always miss the election. Actually, 76 percent of the eligible population voted, and all the Communists got was a sandal-print on their backs. Contrast this to the 57 percent showing in the last American election...