Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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IT was 11:30 a.m. on the Eastern Seaboard-the hour of shopping at the supermarket or of getting ready for a business lunch-when word flashed from Rome that a new Pope had been chosen. It was 9:07 a.m. on the West Coast-time to make breakfast or...
Such was the Democratic Senate victory that it will be virtually impossible for Republicans to recapture control of the Senate in 1960; not enough Democrats will be up for re-election in non-Southern states to permit the G.O.P. to make up its 1958 deficit. When the 86th Congress convenes...
Plainly Personal. In part, the Democratic wins followed the tradition favoring the party out of White House power in off-year elections. But even more, the 1958 election was based on bread-and-butter issues and on personalities. In state after state, voters showed themselves willing to split their tickets...
At National Democratic Headquarters on Washington's K Street, a delighted yelp went up when early returns from Connecticut's six congressional races were posted. Democrats had hoped to take four of the state's six seats; instead they scored a grand slam and hauled in all...
Elsewhere, Democrats nibbled away at isolated Republican districts to add to the gains they started with last month's Maine election. In New York they picked up a seat apiece in the normal Republican strongholds of Buffalo and Schenectady; in Kentucky's Third District (Louisville) State Legislator Frank...