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...Stevenson doesn't have the common touch, how do you explain his terrific victory in the Illinois gubernatorial election of 1943?" Parsons asked. "You can be sure that he wouldn't have been elected if the party leaders weren't convinced he was a good vote-getter," he added...
...letter said, however, that Fairchild had "a better than even chance of defeating McCarthy." Pointing to the fact that Fairchild is "the biggest Democratic vote-getter in Wisconsin history," the professors expressed the belief that with the expected half million increase in the November vote over the total of the September primaries, two third of which consistently goes Democratic, Fairchild is "by no means in the hopeless position which many observers suppose...
Guyda will start the same lineup he used Saturday except Harry Geles, a "goal-getter," will replace Dick Fisher at center forward...
...Republican Fred Alger Jr., 45, Michigan's secretary of state and the grandson of a former governor, Russell A. Alger, who was McKinley's Secretary of War (1897-99). In Fred Alger the Republicans have put their best foot forward. He has proved himself a good vote getter in four previous statewide campaigns for political offices, and he can make a better, more forceful speech than Soapy...
...Ohio, Stevenson will get little help from impish, blimpish Michael V. Di Salle, onetime Price Boss now running for U.S. Senator against the incumbent John Bricker, who is probably the best vote getter in Ohio. The G.O.P. ticket is further buttressed by the candidacy of Bob Taft's brother Charles for the governorship now held by popular Democrat Frank Lausche. If anybody can beat Lausche, Charles Taft...