Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That's Great." Local Eisenhower supporters, without the help of the national organization, campaigned for write-ins, too. The result: a clear-cut Taft victory. He got 76,556 write-in votes to 61,592 for Ike. Stassen, whose name was printed on the ballot, trailed with 53,444. Nebraska's 18 delegates were not necessarily bound to follow the preference vote, but the best estimate was that 16 would vote for Taft, one for Ike, with one uncommitted. Said Taft, when he got the news from Nebraska: "Gee, that's great...
...earlier. On leave from his job as president of the University of Pennsylvania, Stassen has been rolling through primary states, winding up at dead ends. In New Hampshire, he ran a poor third behind Eisenhower and Taft. In his own Minnesota, where his was the only name on the ballot, the total write-in vote for other candidates outnumbered his Xs. His name was on the ballot in Nebraska but he was third, behind write-in votes...
...vote is scheduled for April 21 and 22. At the next meeting the wording of the ballot will be decided. Council members were instructed to get general college opinion on the question of whether or not to have a Freshman Register next year...
...Jersey, a court ruled that Bob Taft's name would have to stay on the April 15 primary ballot, despite his desire to get it off. Ike, with important support from the Jersey Republican organization, seemed to have all or nearly all of Jersey's 38 delegates sewed...
...Ralph M. Immell, a Warren delegate-at-large candidate, made an announcement: "As an old pioneer in the drive to make Eisenhower President of the United States, I urge every Wisconsin friend of his cause to cast his or her ballot for Governor Warren in the coming primary." Then the 30 Warren-pledged delegates announced that they would switch to Ike if Warren could not get the nomination. "Warren-Eisenhower" clubs sprang up. Pro-Ike newspapers urged a vote for the California governor, carefully pointed out that write-in votes would not be counted in Wisconsin...