Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these points Calvin Mayne, Rochester Times-Union, added, "I think that Ike's strength in the North will not offset the initial advantage the Governor starts with his lead in Southern electoral votes...
...Crimson attack, scoring twice and gaining a total of 251 yards, more than two-thirds of the Crimson total, and 37 more than the entire Davidson offense. A 6.3-yard average for 22 attempts on the ground, six pass completions in 17 tries, and a 43-yard punting average, offset the defensive slack...
...shortage of able guards was offset somewhat by the presence of Wildcat Captain Arnold Whisnant, a center. But Whisnant was injured in last week's Furman game and will see no action today...
...political observers expect Governor Dever to carry the state by at least 150,000 votes for a third two-year term. Even the arch-Republican Boston Traveler, on the basis of its own polls, reluctantly admits that Dever will win almost every major city in the state, and thereby offset any Republican rural vote. But few hazard predictions on the Kennedy-Lodge contest. The youthful, touseled-haired Kennedy is a highly effective campaigner, but Lodge has shown surprising strength at unexpected moments. Kennedy has attached himself to Dever's ample coat-tails, and by this, expects to slip into office...
...drawing on any of the powerful (there are more than 750,000) Irish votes. This is because Kennedy, himself Irish, has campaigned strenuously in solid Irish wards, and in the House has supported such wierd items as the Fogarty Bill which demanded the unification of Ireland. To offset the Irish and the Taftites, Lodge is relying heavily on Italians and independent Democrats, besides Eisenhower supporters...