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The convention will handle all its business on Saturday, electing permanent officers, discussing a platform, and so forth. After Butler's address, the nominations will begin. Besides strong contingents expected for the leading candidates, Stevenson and Kefauver, the names of Symington, Harriman, Lausche, and Truman will be thrown into the...
With one half of the Democratic precincts counted, McCormack polled 18,902 write-in votes over Stevenson's 11,416. Other contenders for Democratic write-ins are Estes Kefauver, who had announced his support for McCormack, with 2505; President Eisenhower with 1441; and Senator John F. Kennedy '40, a Stevenson...
Because the delegates to the national convention are unpledged, neither Stevenson nor Kefauver announced entering the Massachusetts contest. The Tennessee senator stepped out of the running recently when he urged his backers to write in for McCormack.
All last week Pollster George Gallup kept grasping for adjectives to describe the upsurge in Estes Kefauver's popular support. First, Gallup reported that since he last polled them a month ago the number of Democrats favoring Kefauver has jumped from 18% to 33% and the number of independents...
Next, Gallup matched the Tennessean against the field in the South. Five months ago Kefauver was the favorite presidential candidate of only 12% of Southern Democrats, running behind both Stevenson (38%) and Georgia's Richard Russell (17%). By last week's report the figures are: Stevenson 28%, Kefauver...