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...also of the Agricultural Midwest, a barometer standing where all U.S. political currents converge, has already produced seven Presidents: Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, McKinley, Taft, Harding. And John Bricker, who won his third term as Governor last November by a record 374,000 votes, is the greatest vote-getter in vote-getting Ohio's history...
...stake until the 1944 election. Democrats nursed their wounds and thought hard: if the Highway Commissioner were a good politicker, maybe-with the fat patronage in that office-he could help Democrats beat their way back to power. Only stumbling block: Commissioner Kennedy was no vote getter...
...long as Franklin Roosevelt remains the Democrats' most superlative vote getter, the threats of the Dixons and Woodrings are not as ominous as they sound. But Franklin Roosevelt's task of holding the party together is not so easy as it was in the happy, honeymooning days of the early New Deal...
Entering politics from the presidency of the Manitoba Agricultural College in 1922, Bracken has remained continuously in office longer than any living man in a similar position in the British Empire. A vote getter and a wily operator who has remained Premier of Manitoba Province through a series of four coalition Governments that have invariably swallowed up his opposition, Bracken was a wise choice for the Tories. They have been unable to outdo the conservatism of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Party. At the same time they have offered no program to offset the "frightening gains...
...surface, the campaign in Ohio had been listless. But when short, swarthy, forceful Congressman Stephen M. Young, a New Deal enthusiast and the best Democratic vote-getter in the Buckeye State, went home just before election he heard rumblings that jarred his political ears. Farmers grumbled about the Administration's clamping down on farm prices, women complained of drafting 18-and 19-year-olds, citizens everywhere were impatient with the handling of the war. Steve Young found many Democrats with a don't-care attitude; he knew before election day that he was beaten...