Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Ballot. Dewey will break in front, with 300-plus delegates; Taft next with more than 200; Stassen close up with about 150; Vandenberg well back in the field of favorite sons, carrying Michigan's 41 and perhaps a few more...
...Second Ballot. The jockeying by the front-runners begins. Each will hope to leave the field far behind. Many of the favorite sons will drop out and go to their second choices. Dewey will probably lengthen his lead, to 360-plus. Taft might go to 250-plus. Stassen would slip. Vandenberg will begin to show up ahead of the other favorite sons, probably get up to 100-plus votes...
...Third Ballot. This will be the make-or-break point for Dewey. He must either get far ahead, far enough never to be seriously challenged, or he loses the race. The swing to Vandenberg is the test; it may well be started by big blocs of votes from Stassen's following. This is also the point of greatest pressure on the large delegations, which hold the key to nomination. If Bob Taft fails to hold his strength, Illinois' Governor Dwight Green, who is eager to be Vice President, might decide to flip over his state...
...Fourth Ballot. Unless Dewey has won on the third, this is Vandenberg's big chance. If Duff and Driscoll have held out against a rush to Dewey through the crucial third ballot, if Massachusetts and California have not deserted their favorite sons, a Vandenberg bandwagon could start to roll. If it does not start here, it probably never will...
...Czechoslovakia, there was no real need for gloves. The country had a Soviet-style election. Every voter had his choice -of one candidate. Premier Klement Gottwald called his election "the freest in the world." However, anybody who turned in a blank ballot would be considered a traitor. (The Reds...