Word: defeatists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seven Seats. The sour-faced look, the scolding tongue and the defeatist attitude were the more bootless because some Republican gains were not at all impossible in 1950. A party which made gains in the last three off-year elections, and polled 45% of the vote in the last presidential election, was not withering away like the English Liberals. In the Senate, where the Republicans need to pick up seven seats to win control, their best prospect was in Idaho, where Governor Charles A. Robins was expected to eliminate Glen Taylor. There was an even-money chance that Governor...