Word: forbeses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the principal battles, to be sure, Democratic victories were predictable. Unpredicted, however, was the way they won against frequently paper-thin Republican opposition. In New York City, Mayor Robert Wagner crushed G.O.P. Opponent Robert Christenberry by a plurality just under the 1,000,000 that Tammany Boss Carmine DeSapio...
Meyner's rout of Republican Malcolm Forbes was impressive enough for friends to promote him seriously for the 1960
In the New York City mayoralty race, Robert Wagner won by the largest margin ever recorded by a candidate for mayor in city history. In New Jersey, Governor Meyner beat Malcolm Forbes by over 200,000 votes and similarly received more votes than any Democrat in New Jersey history. The...
The Republicans' difficulties are complicated by national as well as regional weakness. Candidate Forbes said, with some justification, that he lost the election because of "sputnik, mutnik, and the sagging economy." Eisenhower advised GOP workers in 1956 to: "Never underestimate the value of a grin." But even the Eisenhower grin...
Meyner, who aimed much of his campaign at the Republican and independent vote, ran far ahead of Forbes in Democratic counties and whittled Republican majorities far below normal.