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Ignoring for a moment the plethora of polls and columnists' guesses, the chances of the delegates ever getting around to a second ballot are historically unlikely. The last time it happened at a GOP convention was 1948, when it took Governor Dewey three ballots to defeat Harold Stassen and Robert A. Taft...
...GOP voters failed to manifest any significant opposition to Richard Nixon's Presidential steamroller. With about 57 per cent of the votes recorded, Nixon had 71 per cent to 22 per cent for Governor Ronald Reagan, 7 per cent for Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and 1 per cent for former Governor Harold Stassen...
About 15 per cent of the Republicans voting in today's primary crossed over to vote for Branigin and McCarthy. Kennedy tried to discourage GOP crossovers. Branigin's Republican votes came primarily from lower and lower-middle class voters. McCarthy's crossover votes came from middle and upper-class voters in suburban and university communities...
...neck-to-neck in Wisconsin. One recent poll showed them with 40 per cent each, and a 16 per cent write-in for Sen. Robert F. Kennedy '48 (D-N.Y.). If enough Republicans vote in the Democratic primary--either from a dislike of Nixon or boredom with the GOP's non-contest--they can swing the Democratic race...
With the collapse of the Progressives after World War II, this pattern was destroyed. Sen. Robert LaFollette Jr. rejoined the GOP, which his father had dominated a generation earlier, only to lose to Joseph McCarthy in the 1946 Republican primary. Since then, the Republicans have captured ever increasing control from the Progressives, who have shifted--along with the state as a whole--toward the Democratic Party...