Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eager political prognosticators, seeking significant portents in last week's off-year elections, could find just about any answers they wanted to find. Democrats were pleased that they held their own in once Republican Indiana (71 Democratic cities to 36 Republican) and rejoiced over a landslide election of a...
Mitchell can draw comfort from the likelihood that he would have won his bet had there been no steel strike. Of course, Stevenson would probably have won the last election had there been no Eisenhower.
In another development, defeated Councillor Charles A. Watson will ask the Election Commission, pending a District Court decision Nov. 23, for a recount. Watson said that should the Court rule the 104 allegedly questionable absentee ballots invalid such action could "materially affect the distribution of surplus votes."
Something of a surprise winner, Trodden was the third candidate to obtain a quota. Trodden is a former assistant attorney general under the late George Fingold, and the last candidate to be eliminated in the 1957 election.
With only four of the nine Council seats, the CCA's position regarding the January mayoralty election is much the same as two years ago. If the four CCA Councillors can agree on a candidate, then the bloc can act as an influential minority.