Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dewey: 29 states with 350 electoral votes (needed to win: 266). California (25), Colorado (6), Connecticut (8), Delaware (3), Idaho (4), Illinois (28), Indiana (13), Iowa (10), Kansas (8), Maine (5), Maryland (8), Massachusetts (16), Michigan (19), Nebraska (6), New Hampshire (4), New Jersey (16), New York (47), North Dakota (4), Ohio (25), Oregon (6), Pennsylvania (35), South Dakota (4), Tennessee (12), Utah (4), Vermont (3), Washington (8), West Virginia (8), Wisconsin (12), Wyoming...
...sugar, and the sight of prize cakes, prize cattle and sullen hootchy-cootchy dancers. Millions of men were digging out red hats, boots and boxes of shells and exchanging speculative glances with suddenly excited bird dogs. Coon hunters were already going out at night, tin lanterns in hand, in Iowa and Connecticut. There would be other game soon-pheasants were fat, honkers were winging south in high Vs and deer were beginning their migration from high country...
Only a Landslide. In traditionally Republican Iowa, the story was much the same. Aging, ailing Senator George Wilson, handicapped by a mouth operation which had cost him his lower teeth, was losing ground fast to the Democrats' ex-Senator Guy Gillette. In a year when Iowans had already shown their dissatisfaction with the ins by dumping Republican Governor Robert Blue (TIME, June 21), it looked as though Guy Gillette, who has' always had a big following in both parties, could be stopped only by a thundering Dewey landslide...
...states which have no such prohibition: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, Washington...
...Lovell, Wyo.), and a vague distrust of Eastern ways. (Until he took up foxhunting in Westchester County, N.Y., he would not ride anything but a Western saddle.) When his son Roger reached college age, Leithead, who went to two colleges (Drake and Northwestern) but never graduated, sent him to Iowa State, saying: "The Ivy League isn't worth a darn so far as making...