Word: popular
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Thus, only Florida and California hold a chance for an upset-and they, not much. Florida's popular Governor LeRoy Collins leans toward Stevenson, and the state's anti-Collins faction is led by ex-Governor Fuller Warren, a hater of Estes Kefauver from the days of the Kefauver investigating committee. Kefauver has kept up his Miami contacts, and some observers believe he can still carry that city; elsewhere in Florida his star has dimmed. In California, Stevenson has already lined up nearly all Democratic leaders, including most of those who supported Kefauver...
...Whitaker & Baxter's. The state has no real political machine, and California voters have little party loyalty. California's "modern" constitution gives the people the power to initiate legislation by ballot, to pass on acts of the legislature by referendum and to recall elected officeholders by popular vote before their terms have expired. All this puts a high premium on public sentiment and on shifts in it. Whitaker & Baxter, filling the vacuum created by the destruction of old-style party organization, are specialists in public sentiment...
...overall result, most foreign observers believe, is that Rojas at present is not popular-but not hated. Some think that if he relaxed his harsher measures, notably the six-year-old state-of-siege under which he rules by decree, he could even win back the genuine popularity of his first hopeful months...
...weak spots in New Brunswick and Ontario. Last week there was evidence that the weakness may be spreading elsewhere in the party that has governed Canada continuously since 1935. For the third time in five months, the Gallup poll indicated a decline in the Liberals' share of the popular vote. The Liberal proportion now stands at 46%, lowest since the 1953 general election. Said the Gallup poll report: "The shift is consistent enough to constitute a trend...
Contrary to popular opinion it was a frost, not sabotage by the lipstick industry that destroyed the holly crop. A killing frost in the chief growing area of the country, Oregon and Washington, a short time before cutting time, blackened the berries and streaked the leaves...