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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Geography: New York is divided into three parts. The city (comprising five counties), its suburbs (three counties) and "upstate." The city is overwhelmingly Democratic, the suburbs and upstate heavily Republican. New York elections are decided by which area goes its way by the biggest margin. The city's counties (called boroughs) are themselves divided (Manhattan, The Bronx and Brooklyn are Democratic; Queens and Richmond are Republican), but the net result is almost always Democratic. The politicians' rule of thumb has been that a Democrat who goes over the wall from New York City with a 500,000-vote...
...state switched back to the Democratic side in the presidential race, and stayed there through all of Franklin Roosevelt's era. In 1948, Tom Dewey carried it only because Henry Wallace's Progressive Party siphoned off 500,000 votes that were mostly Democratic. Dewey's margin in carrying the state: 60,000. New York now has one Democratic Senator (Lehman), and one Republican (Ives). Of the state's 45 U.S. Representatives, 23 are Democrats, 22 Republicans...
Last week Democratic Alaska veered toward the G.O.P. It reelected, for the fourth time, Democratic Delegate Bob Bartlett, a conscientious and friendly Juneau politico. But Bartlett, who had a 4-to-1 edge last time, won this year by a margin of only 4 to 3 over Republican Bob Reeve, a bluff and hearty Anchorage bush pilot who flew north in his own DC-3 to canvass the "canoe vote." The Democrats lost control of the territorial legislature: the G.O.P., which had won only 5 out of 24 seats in the 1948 election, grabbed 21 out of 24 last week...
...years; Maryland, pre-season national favorite, finally living up to its promise in routing unbeaten Georgia, 37-0; Yale, bunching three last-period touchdowns against Columbia (the winning one with only eight seconds to play) in a wild, Frank Merriwell-style thriller, 35-28; Oklahoma, by a startling margin over Texas...
Stevenson won by a decisive margin over Eisenhower in an initial straw poll of law students conducted last Thursday and Friday by the Law School H.Y.D.C. and the Law School chapters of the H.Y.R.C. and the Volunteers for Stevenson...