Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Governor Earl Warren swept to impressive second ballot victories, easily routing all other presidential candidates at the Young Republican Mock Convention in New Lecture Hall last night...
Surprisingly McKeldin was a very popular candidate, polling 108 votes in the first presidential ballot and 44 in the second, and batting Warren right down the line in the vice-presidential contest...
...anticipated battle between Eisenhower and Senator Robert A. Taft never really developed. On the first ballot Ike polled 361 votes, Taft 328, Warren 90, General Douglas MacArthur 36, and Harold Stassen 30. An amazingly large crowd of 12 favorite son candidates, including Herbert Hoover, John Foster Dulles, Senator Wayne Morse, and Alf Landon rounded out the 1,200 delegate votes...
...second ballot the contest turned into a runaway as almost all the favorite son delegations switched to Elsenhower like> climbed to 663, well over the 603 needed for election, while Taft could muster only...
...last question on the ballot, which concerned changing the name of the council's spohomore member to the electoral chairman won with 642 votes approving the change. Since directing elections is the sophomore member's chief duty, the change in name wil in no way change her duties on the council...