Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close at 7 p.m. and the count is usually fast. Professionals in both parties will listen for reports from the First Congressional District (Hartford), which went Democratic by 24,508 in 1948 and by 23,540 in 1952. What they will watch for is the size of the Democratic margin. If Republican Wallace Barnes is giving Democratic Representative Tom Dodd a close race, G.O.P. countenances will light up all over the U.S. But Democrats will smile if the first half of polling places to report give Dodd a lead of 10,000, indicating that he will...
Widespread among voters was the feeling that this election did not matter much. The shift-if there is a shift-would probably be by a narrow margin. Since neither Democratic nor Republican Congressmen have been obedient to party discipline, what difference would it make which side had a numerical advantage...
...increased rates will produce increased revenue less than known increased costs," Heaman said. "Therefore, we'll require further service economies in order to come out with even the close margin of net income accomplished last year...
...resigned from Congress to become president of the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic (an organization to further the cause of civil liberties in the U.S.). In the special election to fill Case's seat, the Sixth Congressional District-which Case had carried by a record margin-went Democratic for the first time since it was remapped in 1932. Before long, G.O.P. state leaders, who had decided that U.S. Senator Robert Hendrickson could not be reelected, were urging Vote-Getter Case to move back into politics. At their urging, Case resigned the $40,000-a-year Ford...
Bergen v. Hudson. While the statewide campaign is important, most New Jersey elections turn on what happens in just two counties: Democratic Hudson (Jersey City) and Republican Bergen (Hackensack). If the Republican candidate can build up a good lead in Bergen and cut into the Democratic margin in Hudson, he is in. In 1949, when Republican Alfred Driscoll was elected governor, he carried Bergen by 48,000 votes, lost Hudson by only 3,400. Four years later, when Republican Paul Troast was defeated, he carried Bergen by only 5,000, lost Hudson by 71,000. Political observers believe that Case...