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Dates: during 1950-1959
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POLITICAL NOTES Poll Vaulting On his swing through Oregon, Presidential Hopeful Nelson Rockefeller sprayed just a whiff of doubt that Vice President Richard Nixon could win enough independent and Democratic votes to win the presidential election (TIME, Nov. 23). Last week, in a visit to Rhode Island, he conceded that Nixon "probably" could win the election if it were held today. But, he added, "we can't foresee now what the circumstances will be a year from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Poll Vaulting | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...Nixon-Kennedy race, according to Gallup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Poll Vaulting | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Poll Vaulting | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Poll Vaulting | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Unsurprisingly, Californian Nixon's greatest strength was in the Midwest and Far West, where he was running 55 to 45 ahead of Jack Kennedy. In Kennedy's own East, the gap was narrower, but Nixon led Kennedy, 52 to 48. Only in the South was Kennedy out front, but in that traditionally Democratic heartland, his margin was close enough to make a Democratic handicapper's hands grow clammy: Nixon, 48%; Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Poll Vaulting | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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