Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Second Ballot. The second ballot began. This was when favorite sons would drop out and the real business of voting would begin. Taft got 50 of the 56 Illinois votes which had gone to Favorite Son Green. Dewey got 24 of the 35 New Jersey votes which had gone to Driscoll. Most of Dewey's gain was in dribs & drabs-a vote here, a vote there, demonstrating the value of the Dewey camp's attention to details...
Before the count was announced by the chair the convention knew full well what had happened. Dewey had 515 votes, 33 short of the nomination. But the coalitionists, desperate as they were, would not give in yet. They had agreed to ask for a recess after the second ballot. But now, while the official count was being tallied, there was confusion on the floor. Restless delegates from the coalition states saw the Dewey bandwagon rolling right past their door. Should they switch...
...Vandenberg, getting the final word to jump. Other coalition bosses looked for California's Bill Knowland, who in all conscience should also be given the chance to say aye or nay. But Knowland could not be found. Then the chair announced the count, which formally closed the second ballot. It was too late to make any changes...
...third ballot was a mere formality. The result: unanimous nomination of Thomas E. Dewey...
Unlike Franklin Roosevelt, who liked to needle Republicans with provocative statements during their conventions, Harry Truman soft-pedaled politics last week. He seemed to have no interest in what was being said about him at Philadelphia; not until the second ballot did he turn on the television set in his office. Later, secluded in his study, he watched the convention's climax...