Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maryland, 12,564; Massachusetts, 20,556; Michigan, 47,282; Minnesota, 18,652; Mississippi, 12,759; Missouri, 23,619; Montana, 2,563; Nebraska, 6,456; Nevada, 624; New Hampshire, 1,579; New Jersey, 32,170; New Mexico, 2,962; New York, 114,796; North Carolina, 15,613; North Dakota, 3,401; Ohio, 52,497; Oklahoma, 9,365; Oregon, 2,806; Pennsylvania, 61,522; Rhode Island, 3,118; South Carolina, 5,957; South Dakota, 3,525; Tennessee, 14,229; Texas, 33,213; Utah, 2,153; Vermont, 1,206; Virginia, 9,747; Washington, 5,821; West Virginia, 8,454; Wisconsin, 21,632; Wyoming...
Iowa (11), South Dakota (4), Nebraska (7), Kansas (9), Colorado (6)-some of them by margins narrow enough to be reversed in the final count. Indiana (14), North Dakota (4) and Michigan (19) were in doubt. If Willkie got them all, he had 101 electoral votes. Franklin Roosevelt's total (472 electoral votes in 1932, 523 in 1936) now hovered around...
...North Dakota's 54-year-old Republican William Langer has survived diabetes, two terms as Governor, three trials for political conspiracy and perjury (he was finally acquitted). Out against him for the Senate are a negligible Democrat and one formidable opponent: Congressman William ("the farmer's friend") Lemke. who ran for President on a Coughlin-Townsend ticket...
Midwest. Nebraska (7), Kansas (9), North Dakota (4), South Dakota(4)-safely Willkie. Doubtful: Minnesota (11), Illinois (29), Iowa (11), Ohio (26), Indiana (14), Michigan (19), Wisconsin...
...week's end came the loudest boo, the harshest catcall Willkie had heard yet-the Gallup poll. From 78 electoral votes Willkie had dropped to 32. Franklin Roosevelt's score had risen from 453 to 499.*Willkie was conceded only six States-North and South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, and the ancient stalwarts, Vermont and Maine. Only encouragement: in the big States, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Candidate Willkie had held his own, or nearly so, and was still within striking distance. But to believers in the summary of polls, the disenchantment was profound...