Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Voters tended to elect Republicans who resemble Democrats, and Democrats who resemble Republicans. New Jersey's liberal Republican Clifford Case and Delaware's conservative Democrat Allen Frear are examples of this trend. Exceptional were the victories of Illinois' Paul Douglas and Oregon's Richard Neuberger in fights where there was a vast ideological difference between the candidates. Studying the returns, Political Analyst Samuel Lubell concluded that candidates are try ing harder than ever to find and adjust to the central sentiments of their constituencies. If they continue to succeed, as they did in 1954. there...
...Jersey: Republican Clifford Case Jr. carved out a razor-thin victory in the face of a strong Democratic attack and McCarthyite desertions. Election night, Case's opponent, Congressman Charles Howell, claimed that he had won. But by morning Howell's early 100,000-vote lead had been wiped out, and the Case-Howell race became a case of cliff-hanging suspense. By next day, as corrections were made and absentee ballots counted, Case's 200-vote margin widened to 3,308, equal to about one-fifth of 1% of the 1,700,000 votes cast...
...afternoon New Jersey veered into the Republican column, and the race for control of the U.S. Senate was tied. Neuberger's interest in the matter warmed when, at 3:50, he learned that he was 109 votes ahead. "Isn't this the damnedest thing. I mean the fact that the entire U.S. Senate rests right in this kitchen," he declared. "Right in this kitchen," he repeated...
Electronic Cousin. For papers everywhere, the 1954 election was tough to cover. In the seesaw New Jersey race, the New York Post ran a banner head line: CASE LEADS HOWELL. Under it was a picture of "Senator-elect Howell, who defeated Republican Clifford P. Case." In Oregon, Eugene Register-Guard Editor William Tugman wrote an explanation of why the Democratic senatorial candidate, Richard Neuberger, lost, next day took it back with an article headed: NEUBERGER WINS AFTER ALL, MAYBE, HUH? FINE ARGUMENT FOR VOTING MACHINES...
...poll, whose gloomy reports caused the Republicans to change their whole campaign in the state, predicted that Harriman would win by a comfortable 8.8% margin in its last poll, reduced his lead to 5.2% in its "weighted" figures. He actually led by less than 1%. In New Jersey, the Princeton poll predicted a landslide for Democratic Senatorial Candidate Howell, who lost to Republican Case. Palmer Hoyt's Denver Post predicted in its poll that Democratic Senatorial Candidate Carroll would win, but he was beaten by Republican Allott. Said the New York Daily Mirror: "The polls were all wrong, including...