Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Question Marks & Symbols. Warmed by the hopeful signs, the Democrats began to work at electoral-vote arithmetic with feverish enthusiasm. Starting with the last election returns-which gave Ike 442 electoral votes to Stevenson's 89-the Democrats looked hopefully at states where Ike's margin lay within 6% (see map), figured expansively that a shift in all these was possible and would harvest 343 electoral votes-a margin for error of 77 over the needed 266. If this method conjured up doubts, there was another kind of arithmetic, based on the electoral votes of all the states...
...charge for a pound of bread did not give them enough profit. The bakers asked for an increase of one franc a pound in the ceiling price. The best they could get out of the government was a compromise offer to lower flour taxes and thereby increase the profit margin by about half a franc per pound...
...ballots were counted last week, Alexander Wiley was the winner, thanks principally to a heavy 20,000-vote lead in normally Democratic Milwaukee County. Total vote: Wiley 217,402; Davis 207,693. Wiley had had a close call. Of the 445,625 G.O.P. votes, Wiley's slim margin was only 10,000. A third Republican, Howard H. Boyle Jr., 35-who ran on an anti-Eisenhower platform-got 20,000 that might otherwise have gone to Davis. Nonetheless, Wiley should have no trouble in November against Democratic Nominee Henry W. Maier, 38, a state senator, who cashed...
...gubernatorial primary: Donald W. Eastvold, Washington's ambitious young (36) attorney general, who first gained political fame as the Ike-supporting "young man with a book" at the 1952 G.O.P. National Convention, later had a personal falling out with Governor Langlie. Eastvold lost by a two-to-one margin to Langlie-backed Lieutenant Governor Emmett T. Anderson. Anderson's November opponent: State Senator Albert D. Rosellini of Seattle, who easily led a field of four to win the Democratic nomination...
...Georgia, Herman Talmadge, 43, proved himself not only a far more polished platform performer but a better vote-getter than his late father, gallus-snapping Old Gene. Ex-Governor Talmadge, running for the U.S. Senate seat of the retiring Walter George, piled up a four-to-one margin over onetime Acting Governor Melvin Thompson, in the process carried every one of the state's 159 counties-a feat his daddy could never match. Winning an election at a relatively early age in a state accustomed to sticking with its Senators, this new breed of white-supremacy demagogue could well...