Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WALLACE LEADING: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina. Electoral votes...
Nixon has always conceded Wallace Mississippi, Louisiana and, of course, Alabama. He gave up Georgia some time ago. Now he is seriously concerned about his chances against Wallace in Arkansas, Florida, Tennessee and North and South Carolina. Kentucky and Virginia, once considered promising for the G.O P., are less than firm. No one in either of the major parties gives Wallace even an outside chance of carrying any state outside the South...
...decision has not been referred to Congress since 1824, when Andrew Jackson lost the presidency (he later won it twice) despite having collected 42.2% of the popular vote, against 31.9% for John Quincy Adams and 13% each for House Speaker Henry Clay and Georgia's William H. Crawford. In the Electoral College, Jackson's three opponents denied him a majority. In the House, Clay threw his support to Adams, who thus became President. Though Clay hotly denied Jacksonian charges that he had made a deal, he was soon appointed Secretary of State by Adams. Tempers ran so high...
...similar set-to, if not a duel, could possibly recur this year if Wallace won, say, the 47 electoral votes of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. In that case, either Richard Nixon or Humphrey would need 55% of the remaining electoral votes to take the election. A popular-vote cliffhanger such as 1960 might well send the election to Capitol Hill-resulting in all sorts of weird possibilities and permutations...
...record of the past four years only tentatively suggests how important the fund-manipulation has been. Since the federal government gained the power to withhold the school grants in 1964, it has used it against only 115 school districts--most of them in Mississippi and Georgia...