Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tennessee. But, despite the win of an independent electors' ticket in Mississippi, he handily carried Texas and South Carolina, which had been predicted for Nixon. During the campaign, many observers had thought-and said-that Republican Henry Cabot Lodge was a positive asset to his ticket while Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson was a drag on his. Nixon repeatedly stressed Lodge's presence; Kennedy often acted as though he had never heard of Johnson. Yet in the final votes there were few signs that Lodge had helped the Republicans in any specific way-and there was plenty of evidence...
...Much Religion? In Election Year 1960, the great imponderable was the issue of religion. For months to come, the pundits and statisticians will still be analyzing the effects of that issue. But in its general outlines, the answer was clear. Democrat Kennedy's Catholicism was certainly a factor in his favor in the big cities, where Catholics are most heavily concentrated, though the Catholic vote was not so monolithic as the Kennedys had hoped; e.g., in Wisconsin's traditionally Republican but heavily Catholic Fox River Valley, the tendency was more toward party than faith. At the same time...
...land, the black banner lines on the morning editions all read: KENNEDY! At 7 o'clock, John Kennedy crossed the 30 million mark-some 750,000 votes in the lead. Kennedy had 50.71% of the popular vote, Nixon 49.29%. It was the closest election since 1888, when Democrat Grover Cleveland edged Republican Benjamin Harrison in the popular vote but lost to him in the Electoral College...
What the voters wanted was the mixture as before. It was a good year for senatorial incumbents. The only sitting candidate turned out was Delaware's J. Allen Frear Jr., a conservative Democrat. In half a dozen states, voters split their tickets with careful intent to return the familiar faces, whether Republican or Democratic. The South predictably held firm for its ten Democratic senatorial candidates. The Republicans seemed likely to increase their Senate strength slightly, but only a handful of noteworthy newcomers will be mingling with the old pros (see box) in the new Senate. Among the winners...
...Colorado, Republican Incumbent Gordon Allott rode Nixon's coattails to a second-term victory over Trumanish Democrat (and lieutenant governor) Robert Lee Knous...