Word: popularly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wallace's "hate vote" for the narrow Democratic defeat. Nixon and Wallace divided the South, except for Texas. Nixon dominated most of the Midwestern and Western states. Historically, there is nothing too unusual about minority Presidents. In the 37 elections since the first serious attempt to count the popular vote, this was the 15th won with less than a majority, most often because of third and fourth parties. Lincoln, Cleveland, Wilson and Truman all had to make do with less than 50%, as did John F. Kennedy. But not since Wilson's first election in 1912 with...
...37th President, regardless of his party, could hardly have expected the initial bliss that most new White House tenants enjoy on Capitol Hill. The political atmosphere has been too roiled, public opinion too combustible. Partly for this reason, partly because he fell so far short of a popular majority, Nixon will probably attempt to give a non-partisan patina to his Administration. Otherwise he cannot hope to rally the public support and Democratic cooperation he will need...
...back into the fold after they had sulked for a suitable time. When the vote tallying began, it swiftly became apparent that the Vice President had scored enough of a comeback to make the election as breathtakingly close as the 1960 cliffhanger. With more than 92% of the total popular vote counted, in fact, Nixon's plurality was fewer than 250,000 votes out of 68 million (v. Kennedy's 119,000 out of 69 million...
...final returns seemed headed for a virtual tie in the popular vote, the rival surveys could rightly claim that they had come well within their acceptable error of 4%. Harris had Humphrey on the button, Nixon three points low. Gallup was one point low on Nixon and three on Humphrey. Both correctly forecast the Wallace vote. In the end, Gallup and Harris turned out to be reasonably accurate and had obviously restored some confidence in polls...
Iowa. In three terms as Iowa's Governor, Harold E. Hughes, 46, has established himself as an independent and popular liberal. A handsome former truck driver who entered politics when he became angry at the state Commerce Commission, Democrat Hughes was enlisted for the Senate race by Robert Kennedy. A Viet Nam dove and gun-control advocate in a hawkish, rifle-owning state, Hughes was hard pressed by Republican David Stanley, but lowans decided to send their Governor to Washington...