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Taxes, Taxes, Taxes. To reverse the trend in New Jersey, Forbes quickly discovered he needed both friends and an issue. To gain friends, he revved himself up into an Estes Kefauver of suburbia. He has climbed aboard Manhattan-bound ferryboats to shake hands, waded into lakes, scoured supermarkets, logged 6...
¶Reason No. 3 was that tens of thousands of McCarthy-style Republicans, licking their wounds after Ikeman Kohler beat the right-wingers in the recent, seven-man Republican primary (TIME, Aug. 12), simply chose not to vote. In Outagamie County, Joe McCarthy's county, Proxmire got 35% of...
Opening the presidential poll season for 1960, George Gallup asked Democrats and Republicans who they favored for their own party nominations. Results: among Democrats. Tennessee's never-hear-die Senator Estes Kefauver (with 29%) led Massachusetts' eager Senator John Kennedy (23%); among Republicans, Vice President Richard Nixon easily...
Kefauver 45%
Of special interest in the Democrats v. Nixon contests was the fact that Tennessean Kefauver did as well in the Midwest, where he is still regarded as the farmers' friend, as in the South, which regards him as a civil libertarian. Massachusetts Catholic Kennedy trailed Nixon in the East...