Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adlai over Estes. Neither Adlai Stevenson nor Estes Kefauver had entered his name on the Democratic ballot in Oregon's presidential primary-but both campaigned for a write-in vote that would give the winner the 16-vote convention delegation. Kefauver returned to Oregon on the day before the primary for a whirlwind handshaking tour down the Willamette Valley. He was too late with too little: Stevenson had already covered more ground, drawn bigger crowds, and won more votes. For a write-in, Oregon's response was remarkable, with about 130,000 Democrats naming a candidate. Result: Stevenson...
...Dick. On the Republican ballot Dwight Eisenhower got a whopping vote of nearly 200,000-far more than Stevenson and Kefauver combined. About 35,000 Republicans also took the trouble to write in Richard Nixon's name for Vice President, although there was no campaign for Nixon. Eisenhower's name was the only one on the presidential ballot for either party. But even with allowances made for that advantage, the primary indicated strong support in Oregon for Ike and Dick...
...About four of New York's 98 votes are expected to go for Stevenson. However, Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr., who has supported Stevenson, said this week he will vote for Harriman on the first ballot if the governor is presented as a favorite...
Rhee, of course, was reelected, but by the lowest margin of his career-barely more than half the vote. The late P. H. Shinicky polled an extraordinary ghost vote of nearly 1,500,000. But the real surprise of the ballot box was the defeat of Rhee's hand-picked vice presidential candidate by Rhee's bitter foe, husky, affable, 56-year-old Chang Myun, who anglicizes his name as John M. Chang. A onetime friend of Rhee's and former Korean Ambassador to Washington, U.S.-educated (Manhattan College) Chang thus became eligible to succeed Rhee...
Harriman-Symington? Recently Frank McKinney, in a private survey for Truman, found that no candidate is strong enough to be nominated on the first ballot. McKinney also reported that he found Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington with enough second-choice support to be the nominee if the convention deadlocks. At first, this did not seem to fit very well with Truman's own announcement that he had decided not to be a member of the Missouri delegation (which will be pledged to Symington) because he wanted to remain a free agent. With the speculation season in swing, however...