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Delaware. Republican Senator John ("Whispering Willie") Williams, who was expected to have hard going against an opponent (Lieut. Governor Alexis I. Du Pont Bayard) with a wealthy political and financial background, surprised everyone. Williams' plurality(15,335) was more than twice the margin by which Dwight Eisenhower carried the state. Chief reason: citizens of Delaware heartily approved John Williams' successful campaign against corruption in the Bureau of Internal Revenue (TIME...
There were three big question marks in the westward advances. The first was Illinois, Governor Stevenson's home state. The governor was carrying Chicago as any good Democrat should, but his total margin in Cook County looked so small that he could not possibly overbalance the strong Republican vote downstate. (Stevenson's hand-picked successor as the Democratic candidate for governor was running ahead of Stevenson who in 1948 had run nearly half a million votes ahead of Harry Truman.) In Michigan, heavily...
Once upon a time, Gallup would have ignored those undecideds; if he had done that this year, he would have come within 1% of Eisenhower's actual margin. But Gallup "allocated" the undecideds 2-to-1 and 3-to-1 for the Democrats. That kind of pattern this time, he told his readers, would take Eisenhower and Stevenson into 50-50 country. Some of Gallup's other calculations brought Stevenson out ahead. Pollster Elmo Roper dwelt on "basic conflicts" in voters' minds, refused to indicate how the conflicts would be decided...
...Center Tom Cosgrove, $400 to Guard Frank Navarro, and, unaccountably, only $100 to Quarterback Jack Scarbath, the team's key ball-handler. Glickfield did not ask his ex-teammates to throw the game with Louisiana State; he just wanted them to hold the winning margin below 21 points, the gamblers' "point spread" on the game. That way, bets on losing Louisiana would still have to be paid off, and someone could make a killing...
...referendum passed by a 2,033 vote margin, with 25,068 favoring PR and 23,330 against. There were 8,224 blanks...