Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavily unionized Michigan, where the G.O.P. was worried, Ike has the edge in spite of the hard, effective precinct work of the CIO United Auto Workers. EUR1 Among the border states, Kentucky, which went to Stevenson by 700 votes in 1952, looks Republican; Maryland may give Ike a bigger edge than it did four years...
There was still many a precinct to be heard from, many a speech to be made. But if, three weeks from E-day, many of the Ike-doubtful states were wavering, Eisenhower's lead over Stevenson seemed difficult to dispute...
Boston figures especially in the campaign, for several key Democratic precincts are wavering. For instance, in Roxbury's Jewish and Negro Ward 12, a white Democrat faces a Negro Republican. The Republicans, of course, hope to sway the Negro vote, while the Democrats are concentrating on holding the line by playing up the rent control issue. These precincts are vital for either side to win. Stevenson supporters figure that he must carry Boston by at least 125,000 votes if he is to secure the state's 16 electoral votes. In 1952, Stevenson had a margin of only...
...week's end the Vice President returned to Washington, reported to the President on the mood of the U.S. as he had found it (they like Ike), on his own behind-the-scenes prodding of some lax and lagging G.O.P. precinct-level organizations, on his belief that a presidential visit would help some edgy states, e.g., California. The same night Nixon staged a nationwide TV press conference, a bright stunt that ranged eight newsmen against him in eight U.S. cities by remote TV pickups. He distressed professional newsmen because he turned the questions into take-off points for snippets...
Feikens, a New Jersey-born corporation lawyer, began dabbling in Detroit G.O.P. precinct work in 1947, frankly believing that "politics could do a lot for a young man." Soon he found out, "to my amazement," that although 60% of his district wanted Eisenhower for President, the Old Guard state G.O.P. was about to deliver up Michigan to Robert A. Taft. Thereafter Feikens helped spark the revolt that swung the Michigan delegation to Eisenhower. He won election to the $10,000-a-year job of state chairman after the Eisenhower landslide, was re-elected in February 1955 notwithstanding the Democratic clean...