Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important than its numbers-about one out of every four voters who turn out-because of its concentration in the key states and cities of the North." The paper lists 14 states with 261 electoral votes: New York (with population estimated at 32% Catholic), Pennsylvania (29%), Illinois (30%), New Jersey (39%), Massachusetts (50%), Connecticut (49%), Rhode Island (60%), California (22%), Michigan (24%), Minnesota (24%), Ohio (20%), Wisconsin (32%), Maryland (21%), and Montana...
...they had gone two out of three for the Democratic nominee . . . Approximately 30% of these Catholics for Eisenhower were 'shifters'-that is, even on the basis of 1948, when the Catholic vote was already slipping away from the Democrats (the Republicans carried New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Michigan and Maryland), they would have been expected to vote Democratic in 1952. These shifters-whom we shall call 'normally Democratic Catholics' -constituted approximately 7% of Eisenhower's total nationwide vote. If Stevenson could have held in 1952 only those Catholics who had voted for Truman...
...Size. Somewhere in the byplay New Jersey's fat (330 Ibs.), jolly T. James Tumulty was needled with the gentle observation that he straddles too many fences. "My dear man," replied Democrat Tumulty. "I am so large I could represent all sections.'' Twitted Pennsylvania's Republican Jim Fulton: "The gap between the front and back of this Democratic Party is just big enough for you to fill...
...JERSEY. Delegates heard appeals by Candidates Averell Harriman and Estes Kefauver and by Adlai Stevenson's campaign manager, Jim Finnegan, but elected to go to the convention uncommitted. Though the group is heavily pro-Stevenson, leaders will plump for the delegation's chairman, Governor Robert B. Meyner, as a first-ballot favorite...
Died. Wythe Williams, 74, puckish, pipe-smoking magazine editor and newspaperman, sometime foreign correspondent for the New York World, New York Times. Satevepost (1925-26), chief correspondent (1931-36) for Hearst papers in London, founding president (1939) of Manhattan's Overseas Press Club of America; of cancer; in Jersey City...