Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reason: the soldier vote. Eight states have fixed soldier-vote-counting deadlines after Election Day. In Missouri (15 electoral votes), soldier votes may be received up to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8, and counting cannot begin until Nov. 10. Rhode Island and North Dakota (four electoral votes each) will receive soldier ballots up until Dec. 5 before counting them. In between are Pennsylvania (35 electoral votes), Colorado (6), California (25), Nebraska (6) and Washington (8). The eight states have a total of 103 electoral votes. Three of them-Pennsylvania, Missouri and Washington-are neck-&-neck races, in which the soldier...
...House Rules Committee. And, said the President, he just wanted to remind the voters that, if Republicans should gain control of the Senate, his "old friend," California's 78-year-old, rock-ribbed isolationist Hiram Johnson might become chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and North Dakota's isolationist Gerald P. Nye would head the powerful Appropriations Committee...
...North Dakota voters witnessed something new this week. As John Bricker's campaign special chuffed through the state, two Senatorial candidates clambered aboard. One was slick, slippery Gerald Prentice Nye, 51, the old-line, Old Guard isolationist who has warmed one of North Dakota's Senate seats for 19 long years. The other was bespectacled Lynn Upshaw Stambaugh, 54, whom Gerald Nye tossed out by 972 votes in a hot, three-cornered GOPrimary last June (TIME, July 10). Stambaugh, an able Fargo lawyer, onetime (1941-42) National Commander of the American Legion, a man who believes deeply...
Gerald Nye's henchmen hurriedly tried to pooh-pooh this. But North Dakota is one state in which Tom Dewey needs little added help. Observers agree it is solidly Republican; the latest Gallup poll showed Tom Dewey leading...
Meanwhile, North Dakotans saw more of Gerald Nye than they had at any time in the last six years, as he fretfully stumped the backwoods. But the grain growers and stockmen, who decide North Dakota elections, stayed away. Lynn Stambaugh, a rough and tumble speaker, forthrightly hammered hard at Gerald Nye's stubborn isolationism...