Word: california
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great California Republican defeat, coupled with the complete victory of Nelson Rockefeller in New York, poses the greatest threat vice-president Nixon has faced in his aspiration to the Presidency...
Speaking in Los Angeles, Donald Rose, Democratic Party chairman for Los Angeles Country, said California "will definitely have a Democratic state assembly and a Democratic state senate--something," he observed, "which has not happened for a long time...
...near-record turn-out, nearly 80 per cent of the eigible voters in California cast their votes in the off-year election. Rose said the vote "was not an all-time high"; but that it "compares with the vote of 1950, and some of the New Deal record turnouts...
Ohio voters decisively voted "no" by a 2-1 majority on the referendum proposal. The same outcome was indicated by fragmentary returns from California, Colorado, and Washington...
Labor unions had mobilized massive get-out-the-vote campaigns in California and Ohio which seem to be successful. A "yes" vote in either state would have represented a major setback for the unions...