Word: elmo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...percentage point on the correct popular vote. John F. Kraft, a newcomer among the major pollsters, came within three points of the actual spread. The Princeton Research Service predicted a 52-48 percentage score in Kennedy's favor, although the final count was 50.2%-49.8%. Only Veteran Elmo Roper, who reported on election eve that Nixon looked to squeeze ahead by two percentage points, chose the wrong winner; yet even Roper claimed to "feel wonderful," because all such samplings allow themselves a 4% cushion...
...Richard Neuberger won the Senate seat of her late husband by defeating former Republican Gov. Elmo Smith. Nixon carried the state, but not by as great a margin as expected...
Oregon. Onetime State Representative Maurine Neuberger is the favorite to succeed her late husband, Dick Neuberger, in the Senate, although irascible Democratic Senator Wayne Morse, who has long feuded with the Neubergers, is giving her minimal help. Her Republican opponent, ex-Governor Elmo Smith, is neither as well publicized nor as supercharged with corny slogans ("Join the Maurine Corps...
...valleys; and Maurine Brown Neuberger, 52, widow of Oregon's Dick Neuberger and a political virtuoso in her own right (three terms in the state legislature). In her campaign to succeed her husband in the Senate, Maurine is raising the political dust. Laments her opponent, former Republican Governor Elmo Smith: "I am running against the most publicized name in Oregon politics...
...Women voters are more Republican than men (about 4% more, according to Pollster Elmo Roper). *New Hampshire's Charles Tobey, Vermont's George Aiken, Oregon's Wayne Morse, New York's Irving Ives, Minnesota's Edward Thye, New Jersey's Robert Hendrickson...