Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The reluctance of the Moslems was partly based on fear of the F.L.N., which could not make good on its death threats against the 3,000,000 Moslems who voted in the referendum, but could easily pick off the few that ran for office. Besides, many moderate Moslems seemed to...
Among the shards of her career as a Congresswoman was one smoldering chunk that Minnesota's 45-year-old Coya Knutson might have expected. Her vacillating husband, who supported her opponent in September's primary but threw his weight behind Democrat Coya before her defeat in last week...
An overwhelming majority of the key reporters and pundits who write the day-to-day political stories for U.S. newspapers, radio and television are down-the-line liberal Democrats. To their professional credit, they did not permit their pro-Democratic bias to control their predictions of what would happen on...
More Right Than Wrong. The most ambitious newspaper job of forecasting was done by the New York Times, which sent reporter survey teams to 13 states in the pre-election weeks, went back to some areas for last-minute rechecks. While the Times carefully qualified many of its bets, e.g...
Timesmen called the Democratic turn accurately in Indiana. In Wisconsin they correctly picked Democrat William Proxmire for re-election to the U.S. Senate, but muffed the Governor race. In Arizona, after predicting that Democrat Ernest McFarland would unseat Republican Barry Goldwater, the Times took a second look, cautiously rated the...