Word: bandwagons
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...rock of the Solid South. Stuart Symington (104½ votes), Adlai Stevenson (41) and Hubert Humphrey (51½) trailed. If the voting goes into a second ballot, Kennedy's indicated strength should carry him over the finish line with 765½ votes. But if the Kennedy bandwagon should be wrecked, Stuart Symington, with widely scattered support all over the nation, probably stands to gain the most...
California (81): First ballot for Favorite Son Pat Brown. Unless there are unmistakable noises of a bandwagon, the delegates will split wide open on the second ballot, with Kennedy picking up the biggest boodle-at least 44 votes...
Illinois (69): The traditional split is forecast, with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley shepherding 52 delegates into the Kennedy fold, most of the downstate strays going over to Symington. Daley, boss of Cook County, should hold his two-thirds of the delegation through the second ballot; if the bandwagon breaks down, Symington will find easy pickings...
...majority leader of the U.S. Senate, presenting himself as the statesmanlike unity candidate who can rise above politics in time of peril. Against the new backdrop of U.S.-Russian turmoil, he deftly flicked Kennedy's youth and inexperience. Talking to delegates and delegate bosses, he commiserated over the bandwagon pressures of the Kennedy organization...
...that time, Jack Kennedy's thoughts were far from Wayne Morse. His bandwagon was rolling pell-mell for Los Angeles, and Kennedy himself was winging toward his family's summer home in Hyannisport, on Cape Cod, for a big family celebration with the multitudinous Clan Kennedy. The occasion: Jack's 43rd birthday, this week. It would be a milestone for a candidate who had beaten down almost every other charge against him except the unavoidable one that to some of the party's elders, he seemed too young to be a winner at the polls, even...